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    Why your Christmas tree costs more — again

    by Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times Dec 07, 2017 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - On an uncharacteristically crisp December night in Los Angeles, seasonal music mixed with a piney fragrance as mechanic Jose Rodriguez got a lesson in economics to explain why his Christmas tree was scrawnier and costlier than last year.

    Tree seller George Lopez said the noble fir that Rodriguez was considering might not have even made it onto his lot last year. But Christmas trees are in short supply, Lopez said, so the grower harvested the less-than-ideal specimen rather than leave it

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