Ethane is simply described as C2H6. But that molecule, a byproduct of natural gas, has triggered a petrochemical boom that is reshaping the Gulf Coast, the energy industry that lives here, and global markets for plastics, resins and other petrochemicals.
We followed that molecule from a Texas shale field where it is found, to the petrochemical plant where it is transformed into ethylene, the basic building block of most plastics, and to the Port of Houston, where it is shipped to Asia and other emerging consumer markets.
Why are those pellets being sent off to be turned into plastic?
Isn’t it amazing what President Obama’s repeated use of the phrase “Drill Baby Drill” provided for us.
You would think he had a magic wand!
This article and others like it are meant to shame Americans from developing shale oil. The Demonrat/media/Deep State Complex hate anything that lets Americans be less dependent on foreign energy sources. They want to BRING DOWN this country. They’d have destroyed it with nuclear weapons long ago if they didn’t need the products and lifestyle we produce for them.