I run a business flipping houses and remodeling rental properties. I was talking to the owner of the electrical supply house in our county yesterday and he told me they sold the last 200 amp meter base they had in stock the day before. They were probably one of the last stores in Tennessee that had any in stock. You can't build a house without one.
He also told me our power company has been removing transformers that are feeding barns or workshops. They don't have any spares to fix broken transformers in residential areas so they are stealing them from places that affect the fewest people. They haven't received any new transformers in several months.
The areas affected by the tornados last week are calling utility companies everywhere trying to find transformers and poles to repair the damage but there are very many spares left. He said if that storm had hit our county, he didn't think we would have the parts to get the power turned back on any time soon.
Crazy times ahead.
I have been hearing this from many contractors in my area.....
Well pumps and tanks are also in short supply in the northeast. Mine blew up last month and the repair guy only had a few left in his workshop. Supply warehouses get them only sporadically now.
Seems like we are completely severing trade with China, and it’s gonna be weird for awhile. How do you get America to start building shit again? You make it profitable and attractive. How do you do that? You cut off the supply coming from foreign slave labor and commie China government subsidizing.
We are paying the price of decades of our government selling out our businesses to the Chinese. All of that shit we gotta start making again.
I wish there was a way to track all of this down to its root manufacturing points and see where the bottlenecks are. My hunch is that we are at war with China and the EO kicked in and now we are punishing them economically.
100% on board with this.