Comment by throwaway-blaze
14 days ago
Electricity costs skyrocketed and manufacturers moved to lower-cost countries. If everyone moved back to farming the land by hand and stoped using tech, they would also be less dependent on fossil fuels but I don't think many want to make that trade.
> Electricity costs skyrocketed
They are now back to the level of 2021.
> and manufacturers moved to lower-cost countries.
Some loudly talked about it in hopes of pulling in some subsidies and that got vastly overreported for propaganda reasons.