re: #30 StillAMarine

Personally, I’m in favor of alternate sources.

Here’s one that I put in the spinoff links yesterday, but got largely ignored.
Pilot recycling program turns plastics into oil

At its highest capacity the generator can melt 25 tons of plastic into oil daily in the alternative fuel program run by Envion Inc. of Washington, D.C.

“It’s very simple, we just reverse engineer the plastic,” said Envion chairman and CEO Michael Han. “You take untreated plastic waste, it goes through the generator on a conveyer belt and once the plastic is in the generator, it melts down to oil.”

Oils from the melted plastic range from $1 to $1.50 a gallon, Han said. Han said gasoline companies are some of his biggest customers.

Very interesting concept, IMHO.