What will happen If there is no OIL in the world from tomorrow?
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I'm a Petroleum Engineer, and about the closest thing you'll find to an expert on this subject, other than "The Expert," whomever the media says that is next.\n\nThere will never be "no oil" in your lifetime. You may not be able to afford it, but they cannot run out. \n\nNow that oil is $70/bbl, it opens the door to production of different grades of oil and different kinds of oil. \n\nAmerica has the biggest "Shale Oil" field in the world, at over a trillion barrels, that has never been tapped because it will be expensive to extract, and the technology has not yet been improved enough to tackle it. But money solves all of these prices, and $100/bbl oil would certainly do it. You will have to be surprised how fast the technology will ramp up when there's a profit to be made.\n\nAnother example is the "Coal Oil" sands in Canada that they are already extracting by truck and converting to usable oil. It's slower to extract and convert than to simply produce liquid oil, but the one field they are producing from today is bigger than the Saudi field, which is the biggest in the world. And that isn't the only "Coal Oil" field in Canada, and certainly not the only one in the world.\n\nMost people don't realize that we only produce about 20% of the oil from a producing oil sand, and leave the rest of it there because it was too expensive to produce by secondary or tertiary recovery methods. That is no longer true, so the natural oil reserves just doubled when the price of oil doubled.\n\nGovernments are good at creating crisis after crisis, so that they can be your friend and be the only one to solve the problem, that is, by taking control, taking your rights, enacting more laws, forming more committees out of their cousins, and generally living like Kings off of years of perceived crisis. Oh yeah, and they can take over whole countries if they need to and the gullible public is behind them on an invasion, and they can get enough young people to fight their special-interest wars for them.\n\nWhen I was in college in the 1970's, the known problem of that time was that temperatures were getting "colder." By the year 2030, it would be so cold that plants could not live and man would face extinction without drastically chaging things. That was to be in my lifetime.\n\nBut now the "experts" claim "Global Warming." It's all just a theory, like Evolution, but after so many "experts" parrot the "truth" in the media, and even colleges and universities begin teaching it as truth, then it becomes "truth,' even when at best it's a 50-50 shot. Why make a crisis out of something? There's money to be made, control to be taken, and new gov't offices to fill.
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Actually, not when the oil runs out, but rather when the folks running the system can't make money anymore...as if that's gonna happen.
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Yes it would cause world wide economic problems.  First it won't happen the impact of having the petroleum industry collapse would create total disaster for governments.  Look at the U.S.A. Exon made record profits and a number of other companies in the states.  These companies are not going to give up the golden goose without a fight.  The auto industry would need to be completely revamped.  Thousands of U.S. jobs would be loss.  Bankruptcies of major corporations.  Total chaos as wall street investors loose their investments.  Do you truly think any government would allow this to happen.  The only time you will see this take place is when it becomes impossible to continue the petroleum industry as profitable.
413158
No body knows what will happen tomorrow, or even 100 years from now. One thing for sure, only god knows
779695
I'm thinking it would be about the size of, oh say, a planet. Oil is a product of fossil fuels. Long dead and buried by time biological creatures that become compressed to crude oil over time and planetary pressure. As long as things keep dying and compressing, we will have new sources of crude, however, if it is pulled out faster then it is replenished it will create a void in supply.
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The earth will completely dry up, because the atmoshpere that protects us and keeps air around the earth is being eroded.  Along with that will come increases in temperature that will cause methane stores in the bottom of the ocean to start dispursing, which will end up burning on the ocean, causing more evaporation, and without the atmosphere to keep the gases in, it the moisture in the air will drift out into space.\n\nI know, it sounds real "out there", but, seriously, I saw this on a NOVA special on PBS just last week!
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no such thing as endless oil.  Sooner or later will run out.
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No. I think it affects the whole world. Oil is a global necessity.
402225
I don't know BUT I think there will be BIG trouble during the scientifically predicted solar storm year of 2011.  I caught a science show (Please see link below) about two nights ago that was on of course @ about 1 or 2 am.  They discussed in documentary form and showed a scenario of nearly all transformers on EARTH destroyed by this which caused a GLOBAL blackout for approximatedly ONE YEAR.  Think of it, all the ramifications of NO ELECTRICITY for ONE YEAR.  We should use this time wisely to stock up on food and water and where legal on fuel.  It sure can't hurt and if it should happen won't you be glad that you were prepared.
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We will never run out of oil, economics ensures that is the case. As oil becomes harder to get prices will increase, as the price increases people will use less oil. As a result there will always be oil in the ground, there will just be so few people using it that it won’t be worth pumping out.\n\nNobody with any knowledge of the subject has ever suggested that oil will ever run out. That is one point that all sides agree on. The only question is  how much more expensive it will get and how fast.
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It's going to be a very clean and sterile world. Imagine a world without telephone poles. No electrical cords of any kind. No gas stations. No super markets. No stores. Why would you need these things when they'll have replicators. Very much like Star Trek. You just tell it what you want and poof there it is. Someday everything will be run off of satellites. I mean everything. From flashlights to your car. If they even have cars. Why would you need a car when you can just think about where you want to be and it happens. Energy will simply be beamed down from satellites. It's a creepy world. They'll look back on us and wonder how we could live a barbaric life as we do. The way things are going though. There's a distinct possibility mankind will kill itself off before then. No doubt there will be a one world order. Maybe even time travel. The future is a scary place.\n.
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We are definitely at the point of no return. Recently, a NASA scientist said that we have ten years to reverse the effects of global warming. What's the likelihood that's going to happen? There aren't any good, readily available alternatives to petroleum, and not enough money is being put forth to find these alternatives, because the big oil companies have politicians the world over in their pockets.
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B/C there was no oil there
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The human race will survie with great difficulty. The average temprature of earth will plumit to near Zero degrees. World Strom Systems will become depleted of Water vapours thus creating huge famine all over the world.
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One consequence would be wherever the earth stopped the side with the sun on it would fry and the side without the sun would freeze.  Gravity would be disoriented so the tide wouldn't go in and out as usual.  The list goes on...
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First, we'll start running out of it.  Prices will go up.  It will be more expensive to drive, and everything will cost more because it takes gas to ship stuff everywhere.  Airplane travel will skyrocket in price because planes use so much gas.\n\nSecond, there will probably be more wars over oil in the Middle East.  Saudi Arabia has so much oil- it seems like a likely target, either through inciting a civil war or from the outside.  The US will probably be involved in whatever war starts, because we need so much oil here and we have such a big military- we feel like we can take what we need without caring about the people who actually die for it.  China may also be involved in some of this conflict, for similar reasons- big military, huge oil consumption.\n\nThird, people's lives will start to change.  If oil is used up, people may start actually using the altnerative technologies we have available- wind, solar, natural gas, and coming up with cheap ways to spread it around.  More hybrid cars, windmills, solar panels, but maybe a new system to dispense natural gas nationwide at gas stations, if that ends up powering our cars.\n\nFourth, eventually the environmental costs of all our oil consumption will start to catch up to us.  Global warming is already a problem: warming means ice melting, and when the polar caps melt the oceans will rise.  Coastlands will be submerged gradually, first with little islands vanishing(already happening) and then with flooding in coastal wetlands and places like Venice (also already happening).  Despite all this extra water around, it's going to be salty water.  Warming also means droughts and desertification as temperatures rise in tropical regions, especially.  Lots of people will die in sub-Saharan Africa because of a lack of clean drinking water (also already happening).  Fertile land will diminish worldwide, and more people will die from starvation than do already.\n\nThe next wars won't be fought over oil, they'll be fought over water.  Look at the American southwest, and the controversy over the Colorado River/ LA and you'll get an idea of how much water rights mean already.  Dams and river diversion will cause international incidents, and we'll have to make some fast advances in desalinization technology if we want to fight back against these rising tides.\n\nIt's not hopeless, just really, really difficult.  And it gets harder the longer we wait to do something about it- so start today and try to conserve oil.
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Our sun will expand and engulf the earth and turn it into a ball of molten rock, then vapor.  Run... this will happen in about 5-6 billion years.