# A few questions about oil and its future...

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 20, 2007, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-oil-and-its-future/416193 "2007-08-20T00:31:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 23, 2007, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-questions-about-oil-and-its-future/416193/21 "2007-08-23T03:31:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Blake]

They aren’t essentially the same stuff. Everybody in this thread has said this. Aside form both being polymers they have n similarities at all.

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I beg your pardon. I initially mis-read this sentence:

[QUOTE=Blake]  
Beyond both being polymers, nothing whatsoever.  
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I took this, incorrectly, to mean that there was “nothing whatsoever” different between vegetable oils and mineral oils. My mistake.

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