# Gas pipelines and city gas and Gypsum

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/gas-pipelines-and-city-gas-and-gypsum/

[Gas pipelines and city gas](https://www.materialinsights.org/energy/e_gas_pipelines/) (energy) and [Gypsum](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/gypsum/) (commodity): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: energy cost

*Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways*

Wallboard plants burn natural gas to calcine gypsum and dry the boards, making delivered gas a major cost. Monthly moves barely correlate, at 0.03, but yearly moves reach 0.35 as gas cost changes feed into wallboard prices over time.

- **0.03** monthly change correlation
- **0.35** 12-month change correlation
- **0.94** fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.