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[GreenYes] Re: Fwd: Plastic Bags - how much oil is wasted in producing them?


One correction to add:

Gasoline is not ethylene.

Gasoline is mixture of numerous hydrocarbons, primarily alkanes with at
least five carbons in the chain. Ethylene has two carbons.

You can find more details at http://science.howstuffworks.com/gasoline1.htm

Mark Snyder
Minneapolis, MN

On 2/10/06, Norm Ruttan <normruttan@no.address> wrote:
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> Correction----------------------I should have been more careful in
> posting.
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> Ethylene is gasoline.
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