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To: average joe who wrote (5949)	3/31/2002 2:47:18 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 21057

'If U.S. policy gets in the way of long-standing supply relationships with U.S. customers then Canucks have an honest way out. ' Gee, thanks, i think -g- ..... it's force majeure for sure, random act of a power external to the relationships, so legally no problem, however fact remains that if a wall against canadian wood endures any length of time then other suppliers will step in and make their own relationships ... northern s/p/f is quite distinct from the radiata plantations coming online all over, and which compete more directly with the lobby's yeller pine, but that still leaves siberian wood, swedish, finnish, etc There will be a great reduction in flow, count on it, mills are shutting down here already, cutting back shifts, etc ... many can't pay anywhere near the level of that racket money, it remains to be seen whether the US consumer will be willing to do so .... question for the pine lobby - if we're subsidised as they say, why aren't we rich enough to pay their vigorish? 'P.S. this was a great post... #reply-13871850 ' Thanks ... saw that credo on a wall of a local temple once, saved it for times in which cultural imperatives demand a statement of belief .... all i really know for sure of deities is that i know nothing whatsoever of deities ... it does follow fairly directly that i strongly suspect no one else does either .... including - nay, especially - the atheists, who as i understand it are denying the possibility of a greater intelligent force or forces with a hand in making the cosmos go round .... how can they know for sure? - this is illogical in the extreme, requiring fully as much faith as do the religious, and while the religious admit they rely on faith [whatever that is, sorry but us Radical In-Yer-Face Agnostics do not understand the term, even those of us in the moderate cute cuddly sub-sect to which i belong] - the atheists do not Time for a twelve-step programme for atheists, methinks ... they'll need temples for their meetings, so it's good timing, lots of quality canadian lumber going quite reasonable just now