• MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Petrochemicals are barely 10% of oil usage, not really important by volume.

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      22 hours ago

      It was literally the byproduct of fuel production. They had to find uses for it and created the petrochemical revolution.

      The issue was we already had ways of making all our products without petroleum byproducts. They also didn’t cause cancer which is kind of nice.