The ongoing U.S. energy renaissance is having a ripple effect that will boost an already resurgent manufacturing sector and put more money in consumers' pockets, research firm IHS said Wednesday.
In an expansive study about the impact of unconventional oil and gas production in the world's largest economy, IHS projects a flood of energy-related investment (to the tune of $346 billion) that will wend its way into energy-related manufacturing investment by 2025.