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"I have just one word for you. Plastics."
Jul. 8th, 2007 11:07 pmPeople keep talking about peak oil, that sometime, maybe soon, maybe a few years down the road we will find that the cost of getting oil will increase sharply as we run out of easy to recover fuel. Everytime I hear about it it's always mentioned along with the price of gas. Even so, I think there's one other cost to us that they don't mention...plastics.
I remember when I was a kid, most of my early toys were made out of wood. I had wooden blocks and wooden fisher price toys that might have some plastic accents. It was only later when we get into GI Joes (the ones that could mess Ken's shit up, not the small ones) and eventually Star Wars action figures where toys really became plastic, so that was in the mid to late 70's.
Heck, my first computer was a metal-framed Commodore PET. My Atari 2600 was the first plastic coated silicon chip box I owned, and that even has faux wood paneling stickers on it because people weren't used to seeing an all plastic box next to their console television.
In the last ten years glass bottles have been put on the endangered species list. It's odd since there's so much more sand available for glass than there is oil, so we're told. When the price of oil jumps, will we go back to having ketchup in glass?
While there's a growing number of experiments being put on the road to deal with the loss of gasoline, more fuel efficient cars, bio diesel and ethanol, hybrid and electric and eventually fuel cells, has someone been making plastics out of corn?
Unlike wooden blocks, the plastic ones don't have the tough edges that hurt when you fall down on them...well, i take that back. Legos do.
What isn't made out of plastic these days? Will the price of packaging for these items increase as well with the end of peak oil?
Damn, I'm to tired from being out in a pool all day (with plastic rafts and floats) to make any sense tonight.
I remember when I was a kid, most of my early toys were made out of wood. I had wooden blocks and wooden fisher price toys that might have some plastic accents. It was only later when we get into GI Joes (the ones that could mess Ken's shit up, not the small ones) and eventually Star Wars action figures where toys really became plastic, so that was in the mid to late 70's.
Heck, my first computer was a metal-framed Commodore PET. My Atari 2600 was the first plastic coated silicon chip box I owned, and that even has faux wood paneling stickers on it because people weren't used to seeing an all plastic box next to their console television.
In the last ten years glass bottles have been put on the endangered species list. It's odd since there's so much more sand available for glass than there is oil, so we're told. When the price of oil jumps, will we go back to having ketchup in glass?
While there's a growing number of experiments being put on the road to deal with the loss of gasoline, more fuel efficient cars, bio diesel and ethanol, hybrid and electric and eventually fuel cells, has someone been making plastics out of corn?
Unlike wooden blocks, the plastic ones don't have the tough edges that hurt when you fall down on them...well, i take that back. Legos do.
What isn't made out of plastic these days? Will the price of packaging for these items increase as well with the end of peak oil?
Damn, I'm to tired from being out in a pool all day (with plastic rafts and floats) to make any sense tonight.
