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Oil is nothing but decomposed plants/plankton, a resource that is not renewable at least not in our lifetimes. Fun fact, go to Santa Barbara CA and walk the be
by subsubzero 4y ago
Oil is nothing but decomposed plants/plankton, a resource that is not renewable at least not in our lifetimes.
Fun fact, go to Santa Barbara CA and walk the beach, the blobs of oil that pop up occasionally are not from some man made catastrophe but naturally occurring oil that is seeping from the ground and washing up on the beaches. Try to get your head around that, a oil spill being a natural system of nature!
I think we need to wean off oil and gas and onto better and more efficient power systems but am glad I do not equate natural products as "evil".
- bryanlarsen 4y agoPlastics can be synthesized from CO2, water and a ton of energy, so they could be renewable if we wanted them to be. The process would even be carbon negative, since plastics take a long time to decompose and release their embodied carbon.