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No on two counts:
1. Most plastics are produced from crude oil components that cannot be used for any other purpose. Many of them were developed by researchers trying to figure out how to get rid of the gunk that%26#039;s left over from the refining process. As in interesting side note, in the late 19th century crude oil was used to produce kerosene and bunker (heating) oil. The remaining waste product was called %26quot;gasoline%26quot; and it was considered completely worthless.
2. When one considers the uses for plastics one realizes that it actually improves the energy situation in a number of ways. Plastic components of vehicles, ships and aircraft reduce their weight so that they use less energy, plastic insulating materials reduce the energy used for heating and cooling, and it takes less energy in the manufacturing process to work with plastics than is needed to fabricate metal, stone or wood. -
Of course all those plastic bags and everything else made from oil