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I disagree -it’s not saying Oil will run out overnight - it’s merely stating what will hapen to regions / local economies and the political impact it will have.

it’s merely stating what will hapen to regions / local economies and the political impact it will have.

I was just reading up on the Fischer–Tropsch that narses mentioned. One of the feed stocks for the process is CO2 and Water. Now you have to put a lot of energy into it for the oil you get out. So not worth the doing when geologic oil (as differentiated from manufactured oil) is plentiful and cheap. But if supplies run low, even at a local level it allows you to change stationary power sources (Nuclear, solar, tidal, space based solar) into a portable fuel source. Since there is no way to run out of CO2 when you are burning oil it is quite literally and physically impossible to run out. They cost will go up (due to the energy needed to transform the CO2 into CO and then into Oil) but you can never run out.

So the answer to the article's question of what to do when you run out of oil is that it is physically, chemically and logically impossible to do so long as other forms of energy exist. You can only drive up the cost.

We have more oil in this country than any of us can ever use. The problem is the environmental wack-jobs won't allow us to drill for it!

You have to jump through so many hoops just to be allowed to drill on property you own it is sickening! And the hoops are for no good reason just more bs to keep the wackos happy.

Then, you are taxed to the hilt if you happen to find oil and decide to produce it!

We aren't anywhere near close to running out of oil. I just wish we would run out of lunatic wack-jobs so the rest of us could live happily ever after in peace and prosperity!