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Mad Prophet Ludwig6/09/2010 3:35:46 pm PDT

re: #452 allegro

Now, the issue is emissions? I thought it was the purchasing of oil from Arab nations. If that is still the topic, then plastics are very much at issue. They are made from petroleum. The power to make them and extrude them into usable forms requires energy that is most probably fossil fuel energy. The trucks that transport them to the store and to your home requires petroleum energy.

Ohhh don’t get me wrong.

If we had as a primary grid source, nuclear wind and solar, the energy to make plastics, or for that matter, to synthesize petroleum from scratch for making plastics, would be available.

My discussion assumes that we switch energy sources.

I wanted to stick to the Arab connection but the resident troll shifted it to some stance that if you use any product derived from these chemicals under any circumstance you are a somehow pro-oil. Being pro- oil means being for maintaining the status quo in energy production and continuing our dependence on it as a society. I am clearly arguing to remove that dependence.

Steve is just being willfully dense. I should have know better than to respond to him at all.