America's got quite reasonable tax rates from an employee point of view.

The U.K. is already disadvantaged on the wholesale cost of energy, and then it puts taxes on it. Anybody who's an energy user is just going to disappear.

The U.K. is one of the few places in the world that has final salary pensions.

You can't have an energy policy that means you can only have a bath when the wind blows.

Germany has great skill levels, great infrastructure, high-quality plant. If you go to the U.K., we're very creative, and we've got the language, but energy costs are pretty much the most expensive in the Western world; pensions are pretty expensive, and the skills are significantly below those in Germany and the U.S.

Gas is by far and away the most important element of our energy policy.

If you go to the U.S., you've got a huge market, cheap energy, good skills, and pensions are a sensible cost.

If you have spent your life building Ineos, and you find yourself in a crisis, you are going to do anything you can to save what you have been building.

I'm not sure we could spell 'shale' in 2008.

In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.