Exxon Mobil and Chevron are spending tens of billions of dollars buying oil and gas assets, betting that the International Energy Agency’s predictions of declining oil demand are wrong. (www.nytimes.com)

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[-] christophski@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I wonder if we will ever see a post-plastic world?

[-] TrismegistusMx@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

We can make plastic out of renewable resources, and we're discovering new materials all the time. It's ignorant and short sighted to think we'll always need to or be able to depend on petroleum.

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