What Will Mankind Do For Plastics ...

StuckInTheSixties
StuckInTheSixties:

... when the oil runs out?

Will we have to go back to wood and metal?

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Corwin
Corwin: We can manufacture plastics from plenty of different organic compounds.... corn oil for instance. We can manufacture fuel with it too. If you fill your car in Canada, the chances are that you're already burning up to 10% ethyl derived from corn.
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calybonos
calybonos:
Ask not what will mankind do for plastics- ask what has plastics done to mankind.
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Karma
Karma: Romney 2012
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calybonos
calybonos: I'm holding out for the Romney 2.0 version.

Carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic...twice the bullshit and half the weight!
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Hyenablood
Hyenablood: personally I can't wait for oil to run out and humanity to fall apart, it will bring me much pleasure to watch the daily news on all the rioting, sigh, chaos is so nice.
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StuckInTheSixties
StuckInTheSixties:

Post-apocalypse television programming should be interesting ...

Wait ... um ...

Never mind ...

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Karma
Karma: We'll have to go back to marble dildos.
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Geoff
Geoff: You can create cellulose based plastics from vegetable matter.

And humanity has been moving more towards carbon fibre over plastics anyway.

And glass is a perfectly acceptable alternative to plastic for bottles. And we're not likely to run out of sand.
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Hyenablood
Hyenablood: hey I could be a glass - blower, that sounded so wrong.
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Geoff
Geoff: Yes, that does sound wrong.
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Karma
Karma: Better a glassblower than a bricklayer.
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StuckInTheSixties
StuckInTheSixties:

Can't believe anyone hasn't made a joke about their name being "Glass."

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Geoff
Geoff: We've (my work colleagues and I) had to do a website recently which referred to "Glamping".

Which we found means, "Glamorous Camping".

Does that make Glass "Glamorous Ass"?

//Edit - removed an error caused by multiple thought processes.
(Edited by Geoff)
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