It seems to me that this is not a step forward. Cheaper fossil based fuels are only going to discourage development of alternatives whilst pumping more carbon into the atmosphere. By all means reduce the amount of plastics that we throw away or recycle them into something useful. Even the practice of putting them back in the ground as landfill must be better. Turning them into something else to burn seems like a bad idea.
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It seems to me that this is not a step forward. Cheaper fossil based fuels are only going to discourage development of alternatives whilst pumping more carbon into the atmosphere. By all means reduce the amount of plastics that we throw away or recycle them into something useful. Even the practice of putting them back in the ground as landfill must be better. Turning them into something else to burn seems like a bad idea.