What product that require petroleum are you ceasing to use?

Boy, the oil companies have it made. Sounds as if there is more oil products around us than a duck that fell into a oil spill. No wonder the environment is getting poluted. Plus that, plastics don't decay in the landfill. I wonder what would happen when some future generation 10,000 years from now digs back through a landfill site and tries to figure out what kind of plant or animal plastic came from. Everythign else will have decayed so they might just guess.

Heaven knows we have cut our driving down to the bare minimum but as far as other things i just hadn't thought about it.

That's a real good thought there. Every one of those products takes petroleum to produce, and it would indeed be wise to cease buying these goods. I don't purchase most of the things on the list anyways. When I do buy flip-flops, they're the kind that has the bamboo/reed insoles with the fabric ties, I haven't bought the plastic kind in a long while. I thought about getting some of those crocs, but it seems like they're made from petrol products to produce also. This is an excellent point you brought up here, and one that we really should heed if we don't want to continue on the rising price spiral of petroleum produced goods. Thanks for the heads up on more things we can do as consumers!

I have been buying plastic containers to use to store food in. I am tired of the plastic bags. Using reusable bags when you grocery shop is another way to stop using plastic. Mine are kept in my car, I have the purple ones and hubby has the green ones!

WE have not cut back on much. But we have cut our driving to almost nothing. I do everything while we are in town and my job just moved us to 4 10 hours days because of the gas prices. I do not use plastic containers or bags anymore. I just glass pyrex even for my husbands lunch.

Since the car broke down, we no longer use it. And it is been like that for a year and a half. And I have never really thought about other things containing petroleum. It is a good thought to keep in mind tho.

I don't buy any bottled water because of The plastic they are made from. They really fill up the landfills and I just read the article tanniebabe78 put here. This is really scary. I also use less plastic bags. after reading this I'm going to have to really rethink some of the foods that I buy. My grandkids ain't going to be happy.

I have a gas powered back hair shaver that is really eating into my budget, but unfortunately it's the only tool I've come across that really gives me a nice smooth shave without leavinf tread marks on my sensitive back skin.

Well, unless you are going to quit eating too, it is darn hard. We can make cutbacks all we want to, but the fact of the matter is we have petroleum in our food too, so unless America gets active and stops buying junk foods with dyes and artificial flavors, you can't really stop the use of so much petroleum. Read this link to see how it is used in everything from toothpaste to oatmeal to candy, jello... Pretty much any food that has color added has petroleum in it. http://www.feingold.org/pg-overview.html

I am using plastic containers instead of so many plastic bag

I have cut back on purchasing NEW items but I havent thrown away my old items. I noticed today that they use oil for making highways. I thought what a waste of REALLY expensive oil if they are using clean new oil to pour into the dirt. Maybe though the highways are made out of dirty recycled oil and if they arent...they darn well should be! It'd be a way for the government to cut back on the amounts that are used.

I have'nt changed anything what with the world ending 12-21-2012!!!! I'm allready gonna miss my "Golden Years!"