In Reply to: RE: I haven't been following it posted by Satie on June 23, 2017 at 23:01:23:
I wish that was enough to save the rust belt. But natural gas prices have been much lower here than elsewhere for years and while it's helped the chemical industry it doesn't seem to have lowered costs enough to overcome wage and regulatory differences, as well as discriminatory tariffs, currency manipulation, and all of the other factors that have made American manufacturing uncompetitive.
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