It is a sign of the woke times, with dire effects upon industry due too rising electricity prices. Boral, Australia’s biggest cement, concrete and asphalt producer temporarily halts manufacturing each day. Its power bill has gone up by 54 percent, and to do something about costs, production is slowed down for a half an hour a day. The company cannot get enough economical renewable energy. As the Boral boss has said: “At a certain point during the day, when the price goes up to a certain level, our manufacturing stops,”
“We’ve worked out economically, it’s actually better to have thousands of people waiting idle for the prices to come down than actually do the work. That’s a real issue we are facing every single day on 300 manufacturing sites across the country.” Sadly, this is the negation of industry.
