Steel prices have gone up so much that there is big money to be made in scrap metal, to the point that meth-heads in my part of the country (Portland, OR) are going out to highways and stealing roadsigns to turn in for drug money. It's crazy.
damn.
who has racked up the prices for their metal exports? we used to (circa 1995) get a hell of a lot of our metals from the former East Bloc (esp. Russia and Ukraine).
someone doing a little creative gouging?