Acid rain expert F. Herbert Bormann of Yale University in the United States also mentioned during a visit to Taiwan last year that some of Taiwan's acid rain might be due to pollution from heavy industry in southern mainland China, which has led some to speculate that even if Wang Yung-ch'ing moves his petrochemical empire across the Taiwan Strait it won't necessarily mean that Taiwan will escape pollution from Taiwan Plastics!
美國耶魯大學專門研究酸雨的專家 F.Herbert Bormann 去年來台時也提到，台灣酸雨有一部分可能來自大陸華南地區的汙染，也因此有人「大膽假設」，即使王永慶的石化王國搬到海峽彼岸，並不表示台灣就能脫離台塑的汙染圈。