What Will Happend When We Run Out Of Oil And Gas?

Question

How will we drive and fill our houses With heat?

WHat will happened?

Answer 1

by the time that happens, alternatives will be in place to take up the slack. be it liquefied coal, hydrogen, solar, wind, whatever. as the price of oil rises, more alternatives will become mainstream. the infrastructure will have to be created, and that takes time, but we are not going to run out of oil anytime soon, well with in my lifetime anyway, and that should be at least another 35 years.

Answer 2

Great question!! And I think about it whenever I look at a car I might like to own-- I think about spending a lot more to fill it up one day than I need to now...



As long as we don't put any more price ceilings like we had until 1979, at least there will not be shortages. The price will go up commensurate with Supply and Demand.



As that happens, other sources of energy will become financially more feasible-- biodiesel for starters, electric cars, with electricity coming from solar, windmills, and probably some nuclear as well...



The fact is, we've always come up with new sources of energy when the old sources ran out (ie, firewood, coal when coal mines in the UK ran out, etc). One of my history teachers brought that up and for some reason I remember it...



What I plan to do is put systems in my house that will use solar power to cut down on the amount of electricity I have to pay for, and one day have perhaps an electric car, or maybe even a biodiesel plug-in hybrid?



We'll work it out!

Answer 3

We will not run out of oil but the amount of oil produced in the world will be insufficient to meet the demand and the price of crude will skyrocket, this is mainly because the middle easter oil fields have are becoming middle aged, the production in the US is declining and no new large oil fields are being found. Increasing demand from China and India will assure shortages. When this happens I can see gasoline at $70 per gallon or maybe more. Currently there are no viable alternatives, ethanol depends heavily on petrochemicals in form of fertilizer and farm fuel, it takes land away from food and animal feed production. Hydrogen is just a way of storing energy, not an energy source. Oil and gas will non disapear as an energy source anytime soon, cheap or even affordable oil will disapear in the next 15-20 years.

Answer 4

We already have synthetic oil/s, and ethanol as a replacement for gas....HOPEFULLY all these scientists we have will solve the problem before it happens! They are working on it.

Answer 5

we will make cars that recharge themselves as they drive like the alternator charges the batteries as we drive and use the battery.

i am suprised no one has done this yet.

there are electric cars/heaters/air conditioners

once fuel is gone doesn't mean we cant make electricity.

Answer 6

Electric heat, electric car, I love my local nuclear power station.

Answer 7

We will never do that, We already know how to make artificial replacements from growing vegitation.