Most of the government-backed battery factories are operating well below their production capacity.

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Also gaining from falling natural gas prices will be primary metals, a sector that slumped early in 2012 with the weakening global economic growth rate as well as increases in production capacity abroad.

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More unusual is what's on the flip side: not a translation but gobs of tiny details about the Malaysian rubber glove maker's factories, their locations, production lines and capacity, as well as number of employees, export markets and range of products.

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And I think that tells you that the way to insulate ourselves, the way to insulate the American people from these kind of price shocks, is to increase our energy independence, to reduce our reliance on foreign oil, to increase our capacity for alternative energy production as well as traditional fossil fuel production.

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