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[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Plastic is derived from oil, oil is created from the millions of years compression of dead plants and animals. Yeah...

No.
Coal consists of dead plants, and it always is a terrestial product.
Oil consists of marine plankton and less nekton, and almost no bigger animals. Plankton is not plants, biologically.
Both need the absence of air/oxygen for building up. And some million years.

The free oxygen in the atmosphere exists because a lot of stuff was pulled out of the oxydation cycle by an anaerobic environment, sweetwater swamps for coal and stagnating conditions on ocean floors, or at the lower part of shallow oceans.
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[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Catfish

No.
Coal consists of dead plants, and it always is a terrestial product.
Oil consists of marine plankton and less nekton, and almost no bigger animals. Plankton is not plants, biologically.
Both need the absence of air/oxygen for building up. And some million years.

I knew I should have google-verified it before I wrote it.

NeonSamurai makes a good point though, and it's for his reasons that I wish I could go veggie, but I like my meat too much.