05-09-2012, 06:52 PM
Global demand on metals is driving a lot of this, since China and India are trying to wire neighborhoods and new developments for electricity like it's cool or something. Add to that plumbing, and other fairy tale luxuries we enjoy in the US and semi-developed Europe, and the rest of the world is sucking up metals like a crackhead on the end of a pipe after getting released from a 10yr prision sentence.
