“There are about a half-dozen U.S. manufacturers of the transformers that are dealing with labor and raw-materials shortages. Ditto said the main choke point is the specialty steel used in transformers — there is only one U.S. manufacturer for that. Her group and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association asked the Energy Department in May to suspend a 2016 efficiency standard that they say is partly responsible for the steel shortage, but the department has not gone along.”
Most of the problems in the country can be chased back to one source: GOVERNMENT. Too big, too onerous, too intrusive, too uncaring, etc.
It takes FOSSIL FUELS to make steel-——