This may be horribly unexciting, but I think it may be kind of important. A guy called the show last week to weigh in on the whole oil drilling debate, and he mentioned that we need the oil not just for automotive purposes, but for manufaturing plastic items as well. Well, it just happens that I took my family out for breakfast this weekend and found a product that appears to be the next step in getting off of oil for plastic manufacturing too. My daughter's chocolate milk came in a cup that looked just like the crystal clear plastic cups that Starbucks uses, with the fitted lid and everything...but here's the first kicker, it is made entirely out of a natural and renewable plant resin. It is also compostable in the right environment, and comes in a bunch of different sizes for different kinds of food or drink packaging...heres the second kicker, it's made in America.

Not that this is exciting at first glance, but it is a huge leap in the right direction...I like to see people in this country come up with great new ideas that are useful like this. If you have a restaurant and might be interested in using this product, do the research on it yourself here http://www.f-k.com/images/stories/literature/fabri-kalgreenwareproducts8-08.pdf