PLA does come from corn! And you're right that we do have plant based sources that are 6x the cost for a lot of things. We dump fertilizer made from petrochemi

PLA does come from corn! And you're right that we do have plant based sources that are 6x the cost for a lot of things. We dump fertilizer made from petrochemical on the plants to grow them. And that's the rub. I have to wonder how much oil we use, to grow corn, to make ethanol, to save oil... EDIT: I Had to do the math I needed to know! 173.3 Bushels of corn per acre: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Iowa/Publications/Crop_Report/2023/IA-Crop-Production-Annual-01-23.pdf https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Iowa/Publicati... 140 gallons of fossil fuel per acre of corn: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Iowa/Publications/Crop_Report/2023/IA-Crop-Production-Annual-01-23.pdf https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Iowa/Publicati... A bushel of field corn can produce 2.77 gallons of ethanol: Assuming these numbers are right, it isnt so bad...