Originally Posted by
theinfamouselguapo
.60@pound x 136 local metal recycler different sizes shapes of cleaned ingot.
Out of a dozen tire players and half as many junkyards got hits on exactly two. Corporate tire chains are responding to Californistan's ban by just banning the stuff everywhere.
A wheel weight that went for a nickle in lead costs about ten times that in steel at wholesale prices. Consumers are not really noticing because it's a small portion of the price of a set of tires, balancing, etc etc. You can probably forget about getting any w/w from any national chain going forward.
Here's something for you to think about.
If just one state passing a law like this is enough to make it difficult nationally to buy lead, how tough would it be for a forward thinking anti-gun congress to simply make the component parts impossible to get by declaring something 'hazardous' like California did?
It seems to me that somebody in corporate amerikka must have woke up and eaten an entire bowlful of stupid for breakfast before they came up with this policy.