Aluminum companies in California have already shut down operations to resell electricity (for which they had locked-in contracts) when prices went sky-high a few years ago. In other words, California economics turned them from manufacturers into non-value-adding middlemen. To their credit, I don't think they laid off their workers; they just sent them home and kept paying them.
>>Aluminum companies in California have already shut down operations to resell electricity (for which they had locked-in contracts) when prices went sky-high a few years ago. In other words, California economics turned them from manufacturers into non-value-adding middlemen. To their credit, I don't think they laid off their workers; they just sent them home and kept paying them.<<
Lets hope that California is not, in this case, a trend setter.