Good point. Thousands of dollars of oil are used in the design and manufacture just one new car. Both in materials and in energy used to make it.
I look around my office and house and it is a base ingredient.
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Originally Posted by Arragonis
Oil is not just used for transportation fuel, it is far more important than that and will be drilled out or extracted no matter where it is. We can reduce the amount we use for transport but the rest is needed for all sorts of other things.
There is nothing we do from being born to when we die that does not involve oil.
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