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Old 04-21-2010, 11:49 PM   #20 (permalink)
RobertSmalls
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Batteries are too heavy to send overseas to melt down for lead. Shipping weight is also the reason your batteries are made near where they are sold.

Now stripping the insulation off of copper wires, that's a labor intensive job. Somebody want to invent a wire stripping gin to liberate these underpaid workers from their toils, so they put their feet up and watch the gin do its work?
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