On top of which we have become a global community inter-dependant on each other. A sort of financial symbiosis. In the US, we have moved from a manufacturing base to a technology base and sent the manufacturing abroad where the EPA does not apply....yet. I was speaking to a tool manufacturer about that at one point and he said they can go to Taiwan and 30 days later have the product from start to finish. He went on to say in the US it was not uncommon to spend 3 years trying to get through all the EPA and other red tape at 4x's the price for the same product, before they could ever produce 1 of them.
Terry

[This message has been edited by trtjazz (edited 10-14-2002).]