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Old 11 February 2003, 10:23 AM
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What exactly is synthetic oil? Mineral oil comes out of the ground -- I assume synthetic doesn't. So what's it made of -- some sort of plastics/polymers? Most of these are oil-derived anyway.

If all the oil in the world ran out, would we still be able to make synthetic?
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