Can we create these same everyday products without petroleum? http://www.ranken-energy.com/Products%20...

Seems to me, that an entrepreneurial type might do well in business, if he/she were to make viable alternatives using a cradle-to-cradle model. Just think of all of the patents in the USPTO database just waiting to be revised :):):)

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9 months ago

Perhaps people could even contact the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation which offers loans for small business start up . . .

9 months ago

bastuardo: you bring up some good points.

PLA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polylactic_... is a viable alternative, becoming more affordable as oil prices have risen. This is a first-generation plastic made from (I think) corn cellulose which is biodegradable.

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If many products were not treated as %26#039;everyday%26#039; but kept until they wore out, fewer would be made. I know people who have re-built their kitchen because the existing one was %26#039;So last year!%26#039;.
Petroleum is not as scarce a resource as metal and wood. But it can be used to make products that break sooner. Suggesting a tax on the souces of plastics production would be a political non-starter, I fear.
(Keep me posted on wooden condom production
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