Plastics use little oil compared to transport. (and usually the heavy components extracted from creating petrol.) Plastics can also be manufactured from organic rather than mineral oils (e.g. corn oil). It's slightly more expensive but not massively so.
Left wing zealots like 'George Monbiot' often trop this line out.
Most European countries have much bigger external debts than the US. This is typical Guardian anti-americanism. The only country in Europe with a national debt smaller than teh US (as a percent of GDP) is Germany. Please do some reasearch before posting.
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Plastics use little oil compared to transport. (and usually the heavy components extracted from creating petrol.) Plastics can also be manufactured from organic rather than mineral oils (e.g. corn oil). It's slightly more expensive but not massively so.
It cost USD$60000 to convert a car and the LPG is more expensive than petrol. You are just making things up.
Left wing zealots like 'George Monbiot' often trop this line out.
Most European countries have much bigger external debts than the US. This is typical Guardian anti-americanism. The only country in Europe with a national debt smaller than teh US (as a percent of GDP) is Germany. Please do some reasearch before posting.