Don't tell me that U.S. Steel producers can't make this stuff because they don't have the ability or capacity. That's b.s.
The technology exists.
Apply it here.
Get the mills up-to-speed.
Roll that pipe.
@Fishrrman I can't speak to steel, but I can speak to Forest Products, and what you said is pretty damn wrong...
American Lumber is *GONE* in the Rockies. There used to be 10 mills in my region - five huge ones, and hundreds of jippo mills.... Now there is only the plywood mill.
Even with tariff protections in place, the investment to put all that back - not just the mills, but the labor, the truckers, the cats/skidders/loaders and operators, hundreds of miles of gravel roads long unkept... And all the equipment to do that...
Not only do the money-pockets need long term guarantees (which are not there), but physically getting all that stuff back in place would take five years just to get to a workable disorder... It would take a couple decades to get the northern forests back to trim operations and real profit potential.
And lumber tech is a whole lot easier to do than steel, I bet.