when will all the earths oil run out and what will we do then?? cause dont we need oil for petrol, deisel?
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One thing you need to remember when you look at estimates of remaining oil.  These estimates are not based on how much oil is physically remaining, but how much is there that is "economically" feasible to recover.\n\nAs demand increases, price increases.  As price increases, oil that was not previously economical to recover becomes available.\n\nThe northwest US and the west of Canada are sitting on enormous reserves of Oil Shales (Estimates say that it is a larger amount than all of the oil that has ever been found in the middle east).  Once oil exceeded $40 per barrel it became profitable to recover this oil.\n\nI'm not sure what all the oil companies are doing in relation to this but I do know that the state of Montana is setting up it's own refinery to convert these oil shales into fuel (the process was invented by the Germans during WW-II).\n\nThe advantage to this source of oil is that the refining process removes the mercury, sulfide, and arsenide's from the fuel.  This reduces the amount, and hazards of the emissions that we produce (acid rain and water pollution).\n\nSo, in a long rambling way, I'm saying that it is not really possible to place a date on when the worlds oil supply will be exhausted.  I do think that we are entering a new and dynamic time, scientifically, that should make the next 20 years very interesting to watch.
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we are running out of oil it has been caluculated by knowles that we are due to run out of oil in 2021.  so basically buggar.  however seaweed farms let off methane and this can be used as a natural resource helium in not sure
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your observation of current conditions go far beyond the political structure that our world suffers from Today.In brief, the answer to the first part of your question is 'Its already too late!" Our Environment is in total upheaval due to the persistent use of FOSSIL FUEL!! Global Warming is UPON us as we sleep, eat and make war....for the very product that will terminate Life as we know it...First of all,once the concept of Greed is comprehended ...We as a race might have a chance to not become exstinct. As it stands now, it doesnt look very good. Understanding the free worlds economy and realizing that it is controlled by the Petro Dollar.and the handful of people that own the Companies that produce Petroleum.Failure to keep the Petro Dollar afloat WILL and WOULD collapse the free world economy,  THIS is the POLITICAL Machine that decides whose Son or Daughter should be sacrificed to maintain a "Freedom" to breath foul air and watch our Planet slowly Die; Being ravaged by Hurricanes,Tornadoes,and Floods caused by the melting of our Polar caps.Once the Salinity content of our oceans deviate much more or the temperature should fluxuate (I believe its 4 Degrees Celsius) disrupting the food chain, we as a race of people should be issued a shovel the next time we fill our gas tanks ....so we can start digging our own graves....We are on the Precipice, and it IS serious,....but we as a people have a tendency to not want to hear this until its knocking at our door...I pray that we as a society will take note and a STAND and commit...your children and your grandchildren have the RIGHT to live in a world free of Toxic Gases we call 'AIR' that is generated by the handful of Petrol Sharks that keep us stuck from utilizing the technology that ALREADY exist to burn clean fuel  ...Sundancer
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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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The Earth is in danger of becoming almost totally inhospitable for most higher life forms.  Unless we start being more intelligent and get population and resource management under control, the Earth will do if for us.
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*Shrug* Depends on your beliefs. Do you believe in God and an Apococlypse? Do you believe that the current state of affairs in the world is so f^#$ed up that we'll either blow ourselves to pieces, die of disease, over-population, crop failure, or poisoned water before our grandchildren are born? \n\nThe answer is we don't really know. It depends on how wise we become in the next few generations, and whether we (meaning, humanity) can get our enviormental pollution, war-mongering, and population growth under control. Hypothetically speaking our planet won't be destroyed until the sun becomes a red giant in approximately 4.5 to 5 billion years. So humanity, if it never developed space travel, could last that long. But unless major changes are made in the coming fifty to one hundred and fifty years, we may well be facing yet another mass extinction of life on earth (this wouldn't be the first major extinction...).
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What is the future of LED lighting and how will it change the world. How much oil would it save, if any, what would be the impact on the Earth and .........
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Try Reading the END OF OIL by Paul Roberts.\nIt'll run out a darn-sight sooner than we thought!\nOIL companies have/did lie about the amount of oil they have left.\nThe oil that is being pumped now has 2 go thru more refining than ever B4 & is down 2 the amount of Sea water they pump in 2 the fields.\nEverytime a alternative 2 oil is investigated the Oil companies surpress the data.  They R not going 2 give up on oil until every last drop has been extracted & no-one can predict exactly what affect this will have on the Planet. I'm sure that any warnings would proberly supressed by the oil companies 2.
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None we keep all our oil just in case.
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this is an 11 year cycle of our sun. it will start revving up around 2008 and should peak around 2012.  we have had them in the past say about 22 years ago. If it dose happen the thing we need IS solar panels.  because the transformers on the planet will be taken out by power surges of the sun and we will be without power for as much as 10 years while they rebuild them. (we really need alternative energy then) but i really don't think it is something we really need to worry about.
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when the sun dies and runs out of fuel. Then the earth will die because of no photosysthesis.
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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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Not in the next 50 years.  Ever since we started using oil commentators have been saying it's about to run out.
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The earth isn't going to cave in because we extract the oil out of it.  Its not like the oil is just sitting in some big open cavity deep down in the ground.  It is in the tiny pore spaces in the rock, and the cracks and fissures for the most part.  It behaves similar to water in the ground, and people pump that out from their wells all the time without collapse
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Yes. In about 150 years there will be no oil if we continue this way.\nAnyway .. there are unlimited resources, at least for energy, ... solar/eolian/waterfall energy.\nHope this helps
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Absolutely.  There is plenty of oil, enough to last for 100's of years.  Actually if you look at it logically, we will never really run out of oil.  Supplies will dwindle, we will tap into other sources, like oil shale, and oil sand, but the production cots will go up.  Eventually we will get to a point, where the cost is high enough, to make alternative energy sources, profitable.  Once that happens, competition and the free market system will find a cheap efficient substitute, and we will leave oil usage to the third world.
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We are done with the peak oil, and now we're starting to decline.  In a couple of years' time, we'll be well on our way on the decline.  \n\nAs a reference, get your hands on a documentary called "The End of Suburbia" (directed by Gregory Greene) if you can.  It goes in a lot of detail.  You may think they're exaggerating a little, but heck! All reality seems exaggerastion, don't you think?\n\nAnd check these out:\n\nhttp://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/\n\nhttp://www.peakoil.org/