You know what else gets more expensive when the price of oil goes up? Plastic, and everything that uses it. Which is almost everything.

Oh, and food, and fertilizer, and pretty much everything.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/iran-war-unsettles-indias-packaged-water-makers-bottles-caps-get-pricey-2026-03-12/

@petergleick
We definitely need oil for plastics but do we need to make everything plastic like water bottles?