Cheap hydroxymethylfurfural!

[swestrup]

Hydroxymethylfurfural or HMF for short, is one of the main chemical building blocks of plastic. Up until now the only economic source of HMF has been crude oil, but that's just changed. Scientists have finally figured out how to make HMF from Sugar. They've been working on the problem for ages, but they've finally come up with a method that looks promising.

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[hendrikboom.livejournal.com]

We've already got our cars competing with us for food, what with the gasohol fad.
Now it's plastics too.
We're all going to starve so the rich can drink coffee out of plastic cups in their cars.

[swestrup]

Sugar can be farmed. Oil, not so much. Besides, any food shortages today, anywhere in the world, are entirely a political creation.