I've got to give a qualified "it depends." Steve Wall Lumber (http://www.walllumber.com) sells inch-thick furniture-grade white pine for $1.25 per board foot and inch-thick yellow pine for $2.20 per board foot. He has #1 Common red oak for $2.10 per board foot and #1 Common poplar for $1.30 per board foot. So...in that range, hardwood is about the same price as pine.
Now if you REALLY want to get outrageous...he's also got inch-thick bocote or wenge for $14, inch-thick kingwood or tulipwood for $25, a couple of things that cost $16, some zebrawood for $12...so I would say hardwood is usually more expensive than pine but not always.
At the very top of the scale is Lignum Vitae, the heaviest wood there is. A piece 3 inches square by 18 inches long is $31.70, and it's very rare because it's a threatened species. Before it was threatened, it was THE most popular wood for making policemen's batons probably because you only have to conk someone in the head with a lignum vitae baton once to get your point across.
Cheap normally
There are many advantages associated with choosing pine wood over other types of wood. The most notable reasons are that pine is cheap. Pine is also considered to be a soft wood so it's easy to use.
The pine tree provides most of the soft wood lumber for construction. This wood is cheap and plentiful and the trees grow back quite quickly.
Soft wood...
Yes, pine is a type of wood. It is mainly called pine wood.
pine wood is the answer
Not necessarily, as it all depends on the type of wood you are interested in purchasing. Most "pine furniture" is very inexpensive, especially if the wood is unfinished on the surface.
Because it is cheap and plentiful. The alternatives historical were wood or metal, wood is not durable and metal was expensive.
Pine is a soft wood.
it is a soft wood
No..Probably the cheapest, because of its rapid growth rate, and soft wood.
a pine chuck would chuck wood all day if a pine chuck could chuck wood