The Best Use of Fossil Hydrocarbons

Fertilizers are created by the Hababosh process, which is from natural gas. And something like 60% of the nitrogen in our bodies has been fixed by it. We wouldn't be able to have this many people on the planet without that extra nitrogen being fixed into protein. So food production is at the moment critical for fossil fuels. But then all of the clothes that we wear, the materials that we build cars with, the houses and the materials thatWe have, it's astonishing cosmetics for the ladies. It's all constant petrochemicals. People don't know you as well as I do. They don't know that you were trying to make a joke there.

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