Green Dream to End Fossil Fuels Also Means Going without Plastics

American Thinker ^ | 10/02/2019 | Brian Tomlinson

[SeekAndFind]

Have you ever seen the 1967 movie, “The Graduate,” where actor Dustin Hoffman, in the role of a young graduate, gets sage advice as to what field he should get into?  "Plastics," young man, is the future was the recommendation.  But where do plastics originate?  Plastics are characterized as polymers.  Polymers are long-chained monomers.  Some examples of monomers are ethylene and propylene.  When these monomers are polymerized they become polyethylene and polypropylene.  From where do these monomers originate?  They are products from oil and gas production.

The current crop of Democratic Party presidential wannabees have drunk the Green New Deal (GND) Kool-Aid.  Stop fracking!  Stop oil and gas production on federal lands!  Ban offshore oil and gas production!  Most of these “rocket scientists” come from states that import their refined products for transportation fuels and heating oil.  They do not want any of those stinking oil refineries in their backyards but please continue to import the gasoline and diesel from refineries in the Virgin Islands or from Venezuelan-owned refineries.  So where do we get plastics if oil and gas production ceases?  Technology exists to convert coal into hydrocarbons but it is energy-intensive and very expensive.  By the way, that technology was developed to further Hitler’s Nazi putsch to conquer the world.  So do we return to a world of “Before Plastics”?

Here is a little table of just a few plastic items we use and the kinds of items that could replace them if the proponents of the GND were successful:

 

Whatever did we do 60 years ago before plastics?  That must be going through some snowflakes’ minds (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez comes to mind, but I digress) after the seven hour DNC marathon commercial aka Democrat debate on climate change. 

[goldstategop]

Democrats want to return to the Stone Age. No kidding!

[C19fan]

I think for the Watermelons, Green on the Outside, Red on the Inside, that is a feature not a bug.

[rktman]

Oh, it means going without a LOT of things. The gretalike fidiots really are just that. ‘Panem’ anyone?

[Howie66]

Liberals are not really big on thinking thinks through to the ultimate result.

If they were, they would cease to be Liberals.

[oldasrocks]

Only Kilts made out of handspun wool will be allowed.

[farming pharmer]

And chemicals, drugs, fertilizer...the list goes on and on.

There will be a 'mass extinction event' if these psychotic idiots ever try to implement such stupidity.

[C19fan]

Not quite that bad, perhaps back to 18th century although not sure what would be allowed for heating and cooking.

[SaxxonWoods]

I’ve been shouting this for years. Oil haters never think about the fact that almost 30% of all oil use is non-fuel in nature.

It’s also why oil haters are doomed to failure. The most amusing illustration of this was a protest a few years ago in the San Francisco harbor. Thousands of kayaks (made of oil), piloted by people in plastic raincoats waving plastic paddles paddled around the SF bay telling everyone to give up oil.

It was hysterical.

[himno hero]

and hop back onto your camel as it is the official vehicle of the UN.

[himno hero]

OUT! with the marxist muslim alliance who wants to destroy western man, his accomplishments and his wealth!
The obamanites must be driven out!

[mountainlion]

Libretard want not only go get rid of petroleum but plastics, fuels, heat, freedom of movement, freedom of speech and they want full submital to their vision of utopia (dystopia).

[mountainlion]

Only Kilts made out of handspun wool will be allowed. ??

Sheep will be banned. Your clothing will be handspun weeds.

[PIF]

Bakelite is made from phenol and formaldehyde; phenol is made from petroleum. No fossil fuels, no Bakelite

[farming pharmer]

Not quite that bad, perhaps back to 18th century although not sure what would be allowed for heating and cooking.

According to University of Oregon website, the average life expectancy for Men and Women in 1860 was about 42 years. You really want to go back to that?

[Savage Beast]

Stop chlorinating the water! Chlorine is a planet killer, and besides if more people were dying of cholera, typhoid, shigellosis, amebiasis, hepatitis, et al., there would be less people to destroy the planet.

[VTenigma]

Not only plastics, but basically everything in modern life. Try feeding 7.5 billion people without fertilizer.

[bgill]

Well, there goes their iphones, lap tops, credit cards, green scooters and crocs.

[C19fan]

I am assuming one would be allowed to still have access to vaccines in the Watermelon’s utopia so that will keep life expectancy from falling to 42.

[VTenigma]

Your clothing will be handspun weeds.

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That made me LOL. I always tell my libtard friends when they get their way I’m going into the prefabricated mud hut business.