Shale Gas and Chemical Industry Interconnected

Yet more evidence of the importance, and the interconnectedness, of the shale gas industry and the plastics industry in the U.S. comes from none other than the American Chemistry Council. The ACC says that shale gas,

…will yield so much ethylene — the basic building block of plastics — that the United States will become the world's lowest-cost source of feedstock in the world outside of the Persian Gulf.(1)

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