When that outfit [or anyone else using a thermal de-polymerization produce a hundred thousand barrels a day net [about one tenth of one percent of current oil consumption], give me a ping. Heck, when they produce ten thousand barrels a day gross give me a ping.
Some extremely large dairy farms are producing enough methane to run a few thousand houses. I applaud them, but I would like to reiterate: As full of crap as people [and cows] are, we aren't going to run our civilization on sewage sludge or cow manure.
Oil is simply a wonderful thing. Liquid. Energy dense. Producible in vast quantities at the price of a few thousand feet of 8 inch hole, casing and tubing. However, it won’t last for ever and the alternatives are all going to cost us. In your lifetime or the lifetime of your kids, the age of oil is going to end. Maybe very soon [my belief] maybe a few years in the future. Get over it.If you want to direct your optimism in a more realistic direction, try nukes, more coal fired electric generation, wind, photo voltaics, wind or simply more efficient consumption patterns based on higher prices.
Sorry about your needing to be sorry, but I was simply elaborating a general principle of economics- substitution, and used this tiny operation as an example of what is possible.
The management of the Carthage plant in fact did state they are making money in an article in Discovery: