In an ironic economic twist, a whopping 99% of consumer fireworks are imported from China. Undeterred by their origin, Americans spend more than $1 billion on fireworks each year, according to the American Pyrotechnics Association. By weight, that makes for roughly 268 million pounds of fireworks — or roughly a pound of pyrotechnics for every American man, woman and child.…Interesting factoid.
Fortune
Firework Facts: Americans Incinerate $1 Billion in July Fourth Fireworks Every Year
Brittany Shoot
2 comments:
Priorities....
If don't find it very interesting that the fireworks are mostly imported from China — after all, they invented pyrotechnics so it is their technology.
What I find surprising — shocking, really — is that the US spends a billions dollars on them and shoots them off in a day or two.
As you say, "priorities."
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