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Re:Just 20 firms behind more than half of single-use plastic... by ComputerGuru on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:46AM (#27191594)
False dichotomy. No one is using less gas because we are using single-use plastics. It’s not like gasoline anywhere in the developed world is so expensive (taxes aside, as they are not a matter of supply-and-demand) that if there were less contention from single-use plastics it would be cheaper and people would be buying/burning more.
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Re:Just 20 firms behind more than half of single-use plastic... by qPM9l3XJrF on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:08AM (#27191698)
The entire field of economics is based on the idea that if you increase the price of something, people will buy less of it. If we increase the demand for plastic, that increases demand for fossil fuels (since fossil fuels are needed to make plastic), which makes the price go up, which means people will buy a bit less fossil fuel to burn in their vehicles etc.

Just search for "gas prices" on Google News and you'll see that people are very concerned about the price of gas. Much more than most commodities, actually.

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Re:Just 20 firms behind more than half of single-use plastic... by nondave on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:58AM (#27191647)
Counterexample: when I used to own a car in the UK, I would absolutely minimise fuel consumption due to cost.
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