*Already seeing that this is becoming less and less productive with every succesive post, Fourtyrulz attempts to breathe fresh air into a swampy sarcasm and hyperbole laden thread.*
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You seem to want everything....the petrochemical driven lifestyle, without the petrochemicals.
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I don't see how it's impossible to have a petrochemical lifestyle (whatever that really means) without petrochemicals. Car companies are proving us wrong everyday by releasing new hybrid vehicles designed with more fuel efficient parts.
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You can always live in a cave and eat twigs and berries.
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This is hardly the only alternative to a fossil-fuel-free lifestyle. Sure petroleum products like plastics are irreplacable and have lead to amazing progress, but scientific advances in automobile technology leave us with no excuse for why we haven't also advanced as a consumer society.
Police use gun buybacks as an incentive for people to turn in their weapons and get guns off of the streets. If state governments could somehow work with car companies to sponsor car buybacks and trade-ins for people with older, inefficient models we would no doubt see a rise in the use of new hybrid technology. Right now over 10 states already give incentives for hybrid/fuel efficient car drivers: parking fee exemptions, tax deductions, rebates, credits, freeway lane usage, and exemption from emissions checks. If these incentives could be extended to more states with a larger number of incentives we would not be so dependent on petrochemicals.