• anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Maybe we’ll see solar and wind fill some of the gap, and 3-4 day work weeks are something we could have been doing foot over a decade?

    The supply of oil for plastics could encourage a reduction in single use plastics and landfill mining for supply?

    But probably just more oil assholes will get rich as the economy collapses.

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      2 months ago

      My knowledge of oil->plastics begins and ends at turbine powered trains and bunker c…

      But I don’t think plastics have much impact on the hydrocarbons used for gas. Last I knew plastics were made with what were byproducts of refinement or gas-making.

      • village604
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        2 months ago

        If the price of oil goes up, so does the price of the byproducts

        • Fedegenerate@fedinsfw.app
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          1 month ago

          Which is quite literally everything. At the very, very, least goods and services are distributed via oil power somewhere in the chain.