British Government Takes Control of Country’s Last Major Steel Mill

The New York Times ^ | April 12, 2025, 1:38 p.m. ET | Stanley Reed

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The reason the Chinese are closing the plant is because the British green energy policy has made the energy-intensive process of making steel too expensive.

But I am sure the engineers in the British House of Parliament will know more than the Chinese steelmakers about steelmaking.

[FatherofFive]

The industry in Britain struggles with high energy costs

More windmills!

Idiots. Energy drives everything.

[Qwapisking]

if great Britain had to build warships again, as in their last, all they’d have is wooden sailing ships. even the cannons would have come from somewhere else. china maybe?

[SkyDancer]

That’ll sure fix everything - government control. Says a lot.

[Paladin2]

It’s tough to make Steel without coal.

[Navy Patriot]

British Government Takes Control of Country’s Last Major Steel Mill

The Limey Subjects did Nazi the Globalist Homos coming!

[nwrep]

Bad teeth and raging atheistic pederasts is all that is left of once great Britain.

[HYPOCRACY]

Probably the only people who could be worse at making steel than the Chinese.

[hanamizu]

“...all they’d have is wooden sailing ships”

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The English oak that built the English ships that ruled the world is long gone.

[Dalberg-Acton]

Are the Brits fighting communism with socialism again?

[ArcadeQuarters]

Destroy the industrial base or let the government run it. Might be better to let it die.

[Reily]

Don’t worry the government will slowly destroy it the most expensive way possible. The only good in that approach is by going slowly it might at some point be retrievable.

[Telepathic Intruder]

What do the British need steel for anyway? Everything is illegal. The Muslims certainly have a use for steel, though.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Britain can no longer rule the waves. They can't even rule a mosque.

The Royal Navy might beat Luxembourg.

[BenLurkin]

And we will nationalise the wealthy companies
And all the directors will be answerable to me
There’ll be no shirking of responsibilities

[alternatives?]

They harvested the old oaks and they would take a long time to replace and I don’t think they have started the process of replacing them.

[ABStrauss]

Way to go Brit lain!

You’ll make the cholera epidemic look like fun.

[Socon-Econ]

To be kept alive on British taxpayer money.

[hecticskeptic]

It’s tough to make Steel without coal.
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That depends on what you are referring to.... Approximately 70% of the steel manufactured in the United States is made from recycled steel (ratio of scrap used as feedstock to total steel production).

Even for steel made in basic oxygen furnaces, approximately 25% scrap is used for the feedstock.

[T.B. Yoits]

The Crown doesn’t need that steel for warships - they’re fighting their wars with debt pressed onto U.S. taxpayers and their descendants.