If oil is a limited resource and plastic comes from oil,how are we not facing a plastic shortage?

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If oil is a limited resource and plastic comes from oil,how are we not facing a plastic shortage?

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Answer 1

Mildly interesting fact – in the Alien franchise the Nostromo, the ship that originaly encounters the alien, is a refinery ship. The need for oil arrises exactly for the reason you point out, oil on Earth is gone and something along the lines “we have much sooner learnt to use alternative energy sources than stopped our reliance on plastics”.