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There is still steel making and processing in Pgh. I lived there in the 90's while in grad school. The 80's saw it's collapse. Most of the Homestead Works had already been pulled down, but the Thomson Works survived.

It's of course not on the scale it was. But Wiki says they plan on investing heavily in modern processes at both of their facilities south of the city at Braddock.

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Even when I was a little boy at four years old, my mother would say, "You love trucks." I think the "even" is redundant there. It's normal for children to like trucks. What is odd is when adult men who are nominally the most powerful political leader in the world sit at the wheel of a stationary truck and pretend they are driving it like a child would.

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Plenty of other ideas, too. Thermal storage, flywheels.....

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I'm so strung out... Let me go on like I Blister in the sun

I hope you know this will go down on your permanent record.

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Balloon?

I was actually humming this at work today. Your debut single?

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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Plenty is being made. I work in shipping and receiving.

Companies are under cost pressure; drivers are in short supply, you'll see a hiring blurb on many semis.

Combine this with price pressure from shippers. Less shipping and handling is more profit and dividends.

https://www.businessinsider...

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Pro tip -- style it "'Panda-ring' to the base," and no parenthetical asides to spoil the joke.

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You might be surprised to learn Western Pennsylvania was the site of the first oil boom. Apparently the same formations that produce coal also produce petroleum and gas.

Titusville, to the north of Pittsburgh, saw the first commercially viable well .in 1857. There are extensive shale oil fields to the north and south of the city. The gas is the raw material the plant uses.

So while The Donald often speaks Erroneous Bullshit (it's his native tongue, you know), this is not an example.

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In my western PA hometown, the local steel mill was bought in 1992, with Bush Sr in office. The mill was shut down just after Clinton took office in 1993. Its financial problems might have started under Reagan, but weren't really obvious until around 1991. Nearby towns had mills as well. I don't believe any survived the 90s. So, your guess seems fairly accurate, it has been decades.

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The Final Cut is sadly overlooked. Two Suns in the Sunset, Fletcher Memorial Home, the Gunners Dream, all great tracks.

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The thought of having the power shut down when the orange moron in charge opens his lying mouth doesn't seem so bad.

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No. Are you kidding. But Beto paid his bill right away. We should have put the boot on Air Force One when Trump came last. The city wouldn't hesitate to boot my car if I owed it almost $600,000.

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I'm willing to sacrifice my television if it stops Donald Trump blowing.

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It bothers me! The Drumpf family owes the taxpayers millions by now. We'll never see that money, because Drumpf is a broke, grifting bitch.

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That wheat thing was incredible. I mean, something like 90% of Japan is damn near vertical and can't be farmed. Of course they're going to want to buy agricultural products. Trump has no idea how trade works. (Or anything else, for that matter.)

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his garbage diet probably doesn't help either.

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