17-01-2023, 06:15 PM
(17-01-2023, 06:07 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote:Exactly my point, although there is a push to shift away from plastics in some areas(17-01-2023, 05:41 PM)C_T_Russell Wrote: In the meantime many of us still need oil who cannot afford an EV yet.
You also need oil to produce bitumen for the roads you need to drive your EV on.
We need oil to make plastics. Important plastics. Medical plastics, not coke bottles. We need oil for far more important things than powering combustion engines.
That isn't delusional. It's common sense.
It's delusional to say we need to stop drilling for oil for this very reason.
Ironically if we shift away from fuel burning cars, then the flammable hydrocarbons will be a useless byproduct unless it can be synsythised into other products likely plastics and polymers.