Reality Check - Petroleum
On Oct. 4th Shell Oil sponsored this “article”. I’ve pasted the graphics from the article below.
Shell is also sponsoring a webinar on “sustainable” beauty. Spare me. I almost spit out my coffee…the oil companies are desperate to keep their petro-chemical derivatives in the “Future of Beauty”. I see the future very differently.
I really, really want to know which “fossil feedstock:” they traced this product back to? The Triceratops?
Let’s be clear - petroleum products in any form are not sustainable. They are a limited resource. Further, as the world-wide demand for electric vehicles goes up (hello China!) and the demand for gasoline goes down, gross production of petroleum and all its associated derivatives will become less available and more expensive. We also know that a lot of those derivatives are used to make forever chemicals – like plastic…
As an industry we need to plan a path to the future that will allow us to make the same molecules out of renewable resources (read that term to mean “farms”).
I know they don’t want us to give up fossil fuels and the lovely accompanying CO2 they add to our world, but really? Connect the dots – the CO2 has got to go in order to mitigate climate change, so fossil fuels have to stop. Then, we have to focus on making molecules out of plants – as noted above. Viva la revolución!
