Point of View # 39

We Are All Subsidizing Plastic (3 of 3)

1. Norman Mailer's view of plastics

2. Plastics are made from oil

3. The largest US plastics manufacturers are oil companies

4. Federal governmental tax breaks to the oil companies

5. The oil depletion allowance

6. Current subsidies to oil companies

7. Plastics are the future of oil

8. Plastics and World War II

9. Federal investments in plastics factories

10. Fracking and ethane

11. Section 29 credits to fracking

12. State subsidies

13. The actual cost of plastic

14. Projected increase in plastic production