Oil Prices
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The common misconception is that oil is only used in American cars for gasoline.
Cutting oil production would mean you cut it for plastics, candle wax, milk cartons, polishes, paints, medicines while some, such as penicillin, are made by organisms, but most are manufactured from chemicals, and many of these are made from petroleum products. Compact discs and casette tapes ae made using petroleum products. All plastic products (many of the materials used to make the clothes you wear, or the carpet you walk on, plus hundreds of the other products we take for granted) are made from petrochemicals. As the name implies, a main ingredient in petrocehmicals is oil. Detergent. Plant Fertilizer. Pen ink. Canned goods. Your shoes.
I'd love to see someone try and cut anything that comes from oil out of their daily lives to help save the world.
And btw, from 1997 - 2001 the Alaskan pipeline has spilled almost 7 barrels of oil. Then there was a big 6000 barrel spill a few years later when some drunk idiot shot a hole into a weld of the pipeline rupturing it. Yes, almost all of the pipeline needs to be replaced but without it, we'd be back in the stone age. That's the cold hard truth.