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Oh, and I forgot to mention that we can make ANY 'petro' chemical out of coal, trees, sugarcane, whatever.
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All Comments by E.M.Smith »Food for Thought: How Green Are Biofuels? [View article]
We used coal to make synthesis gas long before oil. Eastman Chemical still does (EMN) for it's polymer needs. In Brazil Braskem (BAK) is using plant sources as are several other companies around the world.
The argument that we need oil to make synthetic chemicals is seriously broken. In the US most chemical producers use natural gas. Any carbon source can be used. We'll just swap to whatever is the cheapest in any given area. Oil is completely irrelevant to the availability of plastics and other synthetic chemicals, it is only relevant to the price (and not very relevant there...)