Comment by FooBarWidget

How about you focus on increasing your own cheap production first instead of focusing on whether depency is problematic?

Dependency is only problematic if you lack an alternative, and nobody is developing alternatives.

My gawd, lots of people in Netherlands want to contribute to the green ecosystem but govt can't even get permitting straight and everything is gridlocked. The electric grid is full and new houses and companies can't be connected to the grid, wnd if you want to install a heat pump or an AC then there are thousands of rules and anybody else in the neighborhood can block you for the slightest thing.

Less talking and more doing. The Chinese at least are all do and almost no talk.