> German manufacturing, once a workhorse, is being crushed by energy costs Hmm, maybe Germany can solve this the same way they "solved" ballooning Berliner ren

> German manufacturing, once a workhorse, is being crushed by energy costs Hmm, maybe Germany can solve this the same way they "solved" ballooning Berliner rents: just pass a law saying how much energy should cost. Simple. They do love regulations over there. Or just ask Gerhard Schröder and the rest of their former chancellors who were in bed with Russia, to blow their hot air through the pipes this winter. They have enough of it.