It's going to be tough for Germany to resume economic growth without a strong chemicals industry. Much of that depends on cheap natural gas for profitability. Germany can import gas from other sources to replace Russian pipelines that have been cut off, but costs for those new sources are too high to make most bulk chemical manufacturing profitable. We will probably see those industries migrate from Germany to places with cheaper gas supplies.

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