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The primary barrier remains the lack of access to competitively priced, long-term power, according to the industry.

“Energy costs are a significant factor in the overall production cost of a smelter,” said Ami Shivkar, principal analyst of aluminum markets at analytics firm Wood Mackenzie. “High energy costs plague the US aluminium industry, forcing cutbacks and closures.”

“Canadian, Norwegian, and Middle Eastern aluminium smelters typically secure long-term energy contracts or operate captive power generation facilities. US smelter capacity, however, largely relies on short-term power contracts, placing it at a disadvantage,” Shivkar added, noting that energy costs for U.S. aluminum smelters were about $550 per tonne compared to $290 per tonne for Canadian smelters.

No, office is no better.

LibreOffice can open any office format document and save in that format.

Exports are where the pain and blood are going to kick in.

All those soybeans, pork and wheat farmers used to sell to China? Gone, gone, gone. China has made deals elsewhere for all that it’s never coming back.

It’s gone and they don’t need the US farmers anymore.

Next up, trump and his regime will initiate a bailout of the Farmers because they destroyed their market. National Debt… another trillion or two added.

I created lists of people I want to see what they post. I look through them. I get a wide variety of content from those lists.

I also created searches by hashtag and that works for me when I want to see what people are saying about specific topics. Works great.

No, I don’t feel overwhelmed.

Just install UBUNTU, it will make your 10 year old machine run like it’s brand new because the OS doesn’t suck and isn’t Windows 98 with code piled on top of it.