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equipment that has electronic controls.
If energy costs go up, it would be
a negative for us. We'd have to do our
best to find other extraordinary ways –
and believe me they are extraordinary,
because if we're not working on them
right now, it means we don't know
what they are yet. We'll have to find
something. It seems like we're always
able to do that to a certain extent.
I just wonder, I know that this is
hotly debated in the media, whether
anybody really has a good feel for what
it does to the overall competitiveness of
the United States of America.
Walker Forge would be against an
increase in electricity (costs) for no
reason. We believe that you have to
take care of the environment and do
everything you can to make it better.
It's just that if none of us have jobs
because we're the only ones making
it better, it'll be very hard to think it's
better. It's quite a balance.
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The problem becomes
those jobs are going
to go overseas. I'm
not suggesting that
we need to ignore
the climate side but
I think it needs to
be done in a much
more cooperative,
collaborative,
transparent manner.
Thomas Riordan, Neenah Foundry CEO
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