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Originally Posted by Locke
"Oil is a dying industry."
Every time I hear that I chuckle. Its like the mantra of the eco-ignorant.
I'm sure people wont think about it when they get in their cars, to go to their homes and pour water into a plastic cup and then go upstairs to have a shower in their plastic en-suite and then brush their teeth and....well, this could go on forever.
But yeah. Oil is dying. Sometime soon. Sure.
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Alberta has done a horrible job at actually converting its oil resources into usable plastic products. They are almost entirely made elsewhere, unless said product has an application in withdrawing more oil from the ground here.
Look at Masks for example- a hot topic for this year. Most are made with Polypropylene non-woven fabric. Polypropylene is a copolymer upgraded from propylene, which in turn is upgraded from Propane. Alberta creates propylene, ships it to the gulf coast of Mexico where it is converted into polypropylene, then it is largely shipped to the east coast where it is made into polypropylene weave and sold back to potential mask manufacturers in Canada.
Nitrile Butadiene Rubber is a similar story.