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Oil is useful stuff, it is a waste to burn it. We will be able to make plastics for a lot longer if we can generate energy from something else.

• eru 11y ago
  We can make plastics from just about any carbon source. But you are right, oil is good for other things besides energy. Uranium and Thorium ain't really.
  • Apocryphon 11y ago
    Well, they're good for the ultimate munition.
    • eru 11y ago
      We use depleted uranium for that. Energy production normally uses enriched uranium.
      • pjc50 11y ago
        Parent was referring to nuclear bombs, which use very highly enriched uranium.