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April 12, 2012

Cheap Gas Signals a Manufacturing Renaissance

Jim Motavalli, New York Times


New York TImes

AS horizontal drilling and the controversial extraction technique known as fracking have made domestically produced natural gas more available and sharply cheaper, that gas has been widely embraced by industry, electric utilities and trucking fleets.

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