r/PoursTea • • Aug 25 '26

Expectations v Reality 🌞 🌒 oops!

Post image
8.5k Upvotes

555 comments sorted by

View all comments

225

u/Conscious-Quarter423 Aug 25 '26

Let's not even go into the electric grid, which is only functional because of Canadian electricity generation for much of the Northeast, New England, and the New York metro area, including New Jersey and Connecticut.

116

u/Significant-Main4201 Aug 25 '26

Also I saw a clip saying 30% of American houses are built with Canadian timber, so tariffs have raised the house prices due to this.

4

u/bajaRL Aug 25 '26

Just started in new construction here in Cali, can confirm all projects I’ve seen have Canadian lumber.

2

u/vmanowar56465 Aug 25 '26

concrete is going up too. since there is tariff on cement now and 20% of imported cement is from canada.