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Old 10-09-2013, 12:12 AM   #21 (permalink)
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I agree that many people who have electric cars and plug in at home are using FF based electricity and that even "renewable" resources are FF based, but where does the ancestry end? My solar panel was made by a factory powered by solar panels, but those panels were manufactured using a FF. So does that mean my solar panel is no good, because it has a FF based production history?

At some point, we have to take what we have, improve upon it and forget about where it came from way back when.

As far as plastics go, yes most are made from oil, but there are many that are made from a renewable oil (like corn, i.e. ethanol), and they are already in production vehicles (look at a ford escape hybrid).

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