I dug a little deeper into this claim that “we’re manufacturing more than ever”.
It seems most of it is oil refining. (4x more than second place “light trucks”).
Correct me if I’m wrong but there hasn’t been a new “oil refinery” built in the USA in about 60 years?
Has oil refining been “robotized” as of late?
Or are the existing refineries, using the same amount of employees (or lower paid immigrants) and just running more crude thru existing machinery?
It really is a misleading statistic and article.
I am more inclined to believe your research than his, frankly. You are right. I don’t personally know of any newly built refineries from scratch.
Where did you get those figures? I believe machinery, transportation equipment and chemicals are among the largest commodity groups manufactured in the U.S.