That is surprising and very contrary to the narrative I’ve been hearing. I’d heard that our steel production had dropped to trivial values after the Pittsburgh forges had gone under.

How’s that narrative go when looking at raw material processing? My understanding is that a decent amount of products we manufacture nowadays have their parts manufactured elsewhere in the world and then are just assembled in the US. That would certainly shift the narrative a bit I think.

This is a genuine question. I know we probably still make our own petroleum products, we haven’t manufactured steel since the 1990s, with the collapse starting in the 80s, but everything else is an informational gap for me.

Crocs are also good for wearing for 14 -18 hour shifts too, though, right?