[Mr. Lucky]

Something similar to what happened when whale oil ran out, I suppose.

[RobRoy]

There is a growing “evidence” that oil is actually produced by the planet. IOW, It is renewed. The pace may or may not be enough to keep up with demand but we may never “run out”.

[MrEdd]

1. We have been using oil for over 150 years.
2. We have been using only the easy to get oil, the “tip of the iceberg” easily obtained.
3. We haven't run out of that.
4. Reproducible experiments have shown that petroleum forms rapidly when carbons are exposed to high heat and pressure - a condition that occurs naturally under the ocean floor in some regions. Oil is still being formed today.

[chris37]

From what I can tell,

The Earth will run out of people

Long before it runs out of oil.

[hinckley buzzard]

I recently had cause to peruse my yellowing copy of The Environmental Handbook 1970, published for "the first national environmental teach-in, April 22 1970."

Same ol' wide-eyed BS, 40 years later. And no closer to "peak oil" than ever.

[2banana]

Well, it is a silly argument.

You can make the important oil end product (gasoline) with coal, nat gas, corn, sugar beet, saw grass, etc.

The REAL question is what is going to be the next affordable energy product in the future...

[cripplecreek]

I heard some comments on the History channel the other night about the future of oil. They sounded suspiciously like the global warming crowd.

“There is no debate”....”Even the optimists agree....”

[VeniVidiVici]

Weren’t we supposed to run out of oil in 1990?

[SouthTexas]

What happens when it runs out?

First, it's gonna get real squeaky.

[mountainlion]

The democrats have made it illegal to drill for oil in Colorado so the oil will stay in the ground if they have their way. The rats want us ruled by OPEC.

[mountainlion]

The democrats have made it illegal to drill for oil in Colorado so the oil will stay in the ground if they have their way. The rats want us ruled by OPEC.

[BlueMondaySkipper]

This entire article is based on a HUGE false assumption: We would run out of oil overnight.

When/if we run out of oil, it would absolutely occur over a prolonged period of declining output. This would lesson almost all of the shocks he's sounding the alarms about as people and economies would have time to adjust to other fuel options.

[American Constitutionalist]

( Oil Won’t Last Forever – What happens when it runs out? ) ....
Build more nuclear plants and power stations.....

[eclecticEel]

1) None of us will likely live to see the day.

2) I most certainly won’t run out overnight. There will be decades of dwindling production accompanied by ever higher prices as the stuff becomes more rare. Substitutes like ethanol or biodiesel would then finally become cost effective.

3) And what happens in the Middle East? They can go pound sand as they watch their unearned wealth be swallowed up by the desert, couldn’t happen to a lovelier bunch of people.

[SkyDancer]

Maybe Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Iran, etc will be gigantic sink holes where the oil used to be ....

[TigersEye]

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[LouAvul]

More junk science perpetuated by liars w/an agenda. What was it, in the 70s where we were headed for another ice age because the smog would blot out the sun’s rays? Now it’s global warming?

[denydenydeny]

... a massive turn to nuclear energy. It may not be the safest of energies,

More Americans have died in Ted Kennedy's car than have died from generating nuclear power.

[FastCoyote]

Well when oil wells runs there are vast reserves of coal and oil shale to process and after that there is nuclear growing algae in farms. So all this “no oil” baloney is just baloney.

[Sgt_Schultze]

We will never, ever run out of oil. If you were the owner of the last barrels of oil on the planet, would you set them on fire for fuel?