[Garvi]

You missed elaborating on why you believe me to be wrong.

> because their energy usage grew way less than their GDP last year

Their main energy pipeline got blown up by an unknown assailant last year. They sanctioned Russia and thus stopped importing their energy and switched to US liquified gas for industrial use that's being shipped by ships and thus 2x more expensive. The US slapped another 2x on the price, just because they could.

[orwin]

> if Germany missed a year of immigration, they would have had a lot of worker shortage this year

Personnal service and agriculture in particular.