[Brilliant]

I'm not worried about what happens if we don't run out. I'm worried about what happens if we do run out.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

We'll never run out completely. The price will increase and slow consumption.
This article also doesn't mention the "seeps" theory...

[Frohickey]

You worry too much.

Things have a way of working themselves out. We are pretty good at that.

[fireforeffect]

Most of the "peak oil" and limited supply panic mongers know nothing about how oil is produced or where it comes from.

The truth is we will never run out of oil but we may reach a limit to how much we can pull out of the ground at any one time.

Oil is made by methane percolating up from the earths core, becoming trapped in rock formations and being compressed into oil over time. This is the current view of competent geologist, very simplified.

Just remember when driving around, NO DINOSAURS DIED TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE!

[RightCanuck]

Honest advice for you; stop worrying, we won't be running out of oil for at least hundreds of years if ever. Go ahead and enjoy life.

[goodnesswins]

Where ya goin' in your car today? Tomorrow? YOU should "worry" MORE about that.....and surviving.

[Obadiah]

This line of analysis misses a key point of the abiotic, deep-Earth theory of oil's origin. If oil is naturally produced within the Earth's mantle, oil may well be a renewable resource.

This is becoming the more and more reasoned theory. I have seen evidence of this theory in print now for over a decade. There is factual evidence of oil wells thought to be dry "filling up" with attainable oil again.

The problem with this, of course, is that if true - and I suspect it is - this would drive the environazis absolutely nuts!

[neutrino]

I'm worried about what happens if we do run out.

Me too. But the mass of people prefer to keep their eyes closed.

[Protagoras]

I'm worried about what happens if we do run out.

How old will you be if that ever happens?

[hinckley buzzard]

The "Peak Oil" hypothesis does not say we will "run out of oil" in the foreseeable future. It simply says that new discoveries will at some discrete point in time fail to match consumption increases, resulting in a more or less permanent acceleration in the increase of the price.