OT: RJ, with your being a floor man, it'd be my guess your most expensive material is wood. With housing construction on the wane, it would be my guess most/all of the wood you need can come from the U.S.
A cheap dollar is good for exports. If you ask me, there has been a secret weak dollar policy for some time now to protect U.S. manufacturing jobs.
I'm hoping the alternative energy sector can and will help negate the effect of increasing oil prices that comes with a weak dollar. Since there seems to be no determined effort to raise tariffs on cheap overseas goods (appeasement style ecnomics, in my opinion), this would be the best way of trying to strike an international balnace of money for everyone.
Let's hope everyone does okay. My opinion: the USA needs alternative energy to save itself from the deleterious effects of high energy prices.
