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Explain?

• guard-of-terra 12y ago
  Everything is made out of plastic, and plastic is made out of oil.
  • seren 12y ago
    Plus our agriculture in the first world is heavily dependent on fertilizers, that are mostly oil based. We are eating oil by gallons.
    • jjoonathan 12y ago
      Fertilizer is oil based? I thought plants got almost all of their carbon from the air. Are you talking about the hydrogen feeding into the Haber process? Because most of that comes from gas-shifted water and IIRC the energy and carbon for gas-shifting water comes from natural gas. The nitrogen itself comes from air, of course.
      • seren 12y ago
        Apparently, I was wrong, thanks for pointing it out, it seems to be actually natural gas dependent.
• danieltillett 12y ago
  Petrochemicals http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrochemical http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrochemical
  • cowsandmilk 12y ago
    And yet, the majority of petrol is used on energy[1]. Replacing its use for energy will reduce drilling. Other uses will adjust to a smaller supply through adjustments to the cracking operations that will shift the remaining petrol to making chemicals. [1]http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pnp_pct_dc_nus_pct_m.htm http://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pnp_pct_dc_nus_pct_m.htm