Originally Posted by captin pank
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What my real problem with having cars, boats, motorcycles, etc. is that it's a really inefficient way to use oil. We should be saving it for our plastic products, synthetic fabrics, medical equipment, bike tires, paint, helmets, and on and on and on goes the list of products made with oil (quite impressive, really, what we can do with oil). We really need to ween ourselves off of oil as a product for transportation so that we can keep our other products made w/ oil cheap.
The products you mentioned are made with the petroleum byproducts of fuel production. So actually the reverse is true. We need to burn more gas so those other products will be cheaper.