On Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:24:51 +0200, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
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> Last I heard, airplanes aren't exactly "cheap", nor are cars,

Airplanes and cars are expensive, but not primarily because of raw material
costs I think.


> and cookware made of alunimium rather than steel is vastly more  
> expensive.

The only reasonably useful aluminium cookware I have seen are frying pans,  
and those are always Teflon-coated. Even so, I have not found them to be  
more expensive than their cast-iron counterparts. In fact, the cheapest  
ones are typically aluminium.


> (Ditto for computer cases.)

The same goes for computer cases; the cheapest ones are aluminium.



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