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Petrochemicals are only 4% of the oil market: http://www.bpf.co.uk/Press/Oil_Consumption.aspx http://www.bpf.co.uk/Press/Oil_Consumption.aspx If switching to
by ninkendo 10y ago
Petrochemicals are only 4% of the oil market: http://www.bpf.co.uk/Press/Oil_Consumption.aspx http://www.bpf.co.uk/Press/Oil_Consumption.aspx
If switching to solar from oil would eliminate 96% of our use of fossil fuels, I'm pretty sure those "environmentalists" you refer to would still be happy.
But honestly whenever somebody brings up plastics in a discussion about sustainable energy or climate change I always assume they just like being contrarian.
- newswriter99 10y agoI'm not doing it to be contrarian, apologies for the tone. I'm just trying to point out that people tend to see political cartoons like the following: https://postimg.org/image/5zi56imjd/ https://postimg.org/image/5zi56imjd/ As gospel. Without considering the fact that pipelines are both statistically safer than road or rail transport. AND without considering that the oil and gas is going to be used for more than just gasoline.
- epistasis 10y agoYou seem to be preemptively trying to head off an attitude that has not yet been shown in this thread. Petrochemicals that are not burned are not contributing to co2 emissions. Also, there are other sources of those long carbon chains besides pumping them out of the ground. And at such a tiny percentage of oil use, they are not a big concern.