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Old 10-26-2020, 08:05 AM
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Originally Posted by xkeowner View Post
Many, maybe even most, plastics are made from petroleum. If we shut down the oil industry it will likely significantly impact the availability and/or cost of anything made of or containing a significant amount of plastic.
Necessity be the mother of invention. If you lived in the early 1900s I fear you would be worried about the demise of buggy whip companies. Would you be concerned about the Whaling Oil Industry and transition to Kerosene? Those dusty coal bins and transition to petroleum. Now we are transitioning to Natural Gas, Propane, Methane for electricity supplemented by Wind and Solar. Currently technology is being driven to plant based materials for substitution of petroleum products for plastics.