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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (78109)	6/12/2010 1:51:04 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 149317

Boycott Big Oil? Prepare to give up your lifestyle By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer Jun 11, 4:01 PM EDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Has the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico got you so mad you're ready to quit Big Oil? Ready to park the car and take up bike-riding or walking? Well, your bike and your sneakers have petroleum products in them. And sure, you can curb energy use by shutting off the AC, but the electric fans you switch to have plastic from oil and gas in them. And the insulation to keep your home cool, also started as oil and gas. Without all that, you'll sweat and it'll be all too noticeable because deodorant comes from oil and gas too. You can't even escape petroleum products with a nice cool fast-food milkshake - which probably has a petrochemical-based thickener. Oil is everywhere. It's in carpeting, furniture, computers and clothing. It's in the most personal of products like toothpaste, shaving cream, lipstick and vitamin capsules. Petrochemicals are the glue of our modern lives and even in glue, too. Because of that, petrochemicals are in our blood. When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tested humans for environmental chemicals and metals, it recorded 212 different compounds. More than 180 of them are products that started as natural gas or oil. "It's the material basis of our society essentially," said Michael Wilson, a research scientist at the University of California Berkeley. "This is the Petrochemical Age." Louisiana State University environmental sciences professor Ed Overton, who works with the government on oil spill chemistry, said: "There's nothing that we do on a daily basis that isn't touched by petrochemicals." When in the movie "The Graduate" young Benjamin is given advice about the future, it comes in one word: plastics. About 93 percent of American plastics start with natural gas or oil. "Just about anything that's not iron or steel or metal of some sort has some petrochemical component. And that's just because of what we've been able to do hosted.ap.org

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (78109)	6/12/2010 3:02:43 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

Greenpeace: people who really want to punish BP ought to try getting Beyond Petroleum themselves. Then how would their boats attack ships and stuff. Nah....that won't work. Gas is vital to their cause. Look how proud and self righteous they are.........and every single one of them drove to the protest in their own car. Its LA, dude! Protesters at an Arco gas station in Los Angeles, Tuesday. Arco is owned by BP. BTW I just filled up at ARCO. My bad..........