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Meanwhile European chemical manufacturing is collapsing under weight of record energy costs.[1][2] Most of other manufacturing is somehow tied to chemicals, you can't build things without material after all. So this will feed ongoing industrial collapse, which now affects even Germany.[3]

Meanwhile, low income households are running into financial issues if they want to turn up the heat.[4]

The whole process has been mismanaged at best.

[1] https://cen.acs.org/business/economy/Europes-specialty-chemi...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/europes-chemical-ind...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_economic_crisis_(2022%E...

[4]https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/heating-eating-energy-b...

parent clarionbell 9 months ago

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