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[–] waddle_dee@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Yeah! less fossil fuel dependency is great! But losing out on ~$10B worth of energy fuel is insane. Spain will need to make it up somewhere else, for probably more money. It will put a small strain on the fossil dependent sector of Spain, which is are usually near urban centers, if I'm not mistaken.

Also, there's still the other 60%, over half of that industrial equipment. All I'm saying is, these things put strains on everyone, and it's almost always gonna be poor people who take the worse hit and I just detest that. American laborers, who are in the manufacturing of these exports, many of whom did not vote for this. Spanish citizens who have a pretty good shot of seeing some small increases in prices. It's just all so asanine.

edit: fucking forgot cause I'm a big dummy. petrol is mostly used for tankers in exporting, so petroleum shortages will lead to more decreases in a country's gdp