Petroleum-based products such as fuels and plastics are vilified for their economic and environmental drawbacks. Businesses, scientists and governments are urgently seeking a reliable supply of affordable fuels and industrial materials, and a reduction in the amount of carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere, and are looking to bio-based products to deliver them.rnHowever, even as they seek to mitigate its drawbacks, they want to match oil's primary benefit - the availability of a large quantity of versatile, valuable material.
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