The cheapness of plastic just to speaks to the enormous demand for all the other oil products sold, it's practically a byproduct.

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carelyair a day ago | parent | next [-]

What will happen to the price of plastic when demand for oil starts reducing for mobility and heating with the move to electricity energy?

	▲	Dilettante_ 21 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Flying pigs will deliver our food directly from the production point, no more need for packaging.
	▲	toss1 20 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Not much; I used to think the same thing. But there are many ways to make the same chemicals from bio sources, either directly grown (corn or soy as feedstocks) or more processed, or bioengineered so bacteria convert some bio input to the desired chemicals

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thescriptkiddie 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

somebody once said oil is too valuable to burn for fuel. the important part are the petrochemicals, but the demand for fuel is so high that's where the money is