> If you end petroleum production, that also ends all plastic production. Bioplastics exist. We need better ways to deal with them at end-of-life (industrial c

> If you end petroleum production, that also ends all plastic production. Bioplastics exist. We need better ways to deal with them at end-of-life (industrial composting is not yet widespread) but they aren’t petroleum-based. > Trains are electric, but you know what runs the electric motors on them? The on-board diesel generators! Not if you electrify the network. And in fact, in the US we used to have over 5x as much electrified track in the 1930s as we do now.