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If the oil ran out, the Arabs would be treated like the international thugs they are

Oh I don't know they do after all have the sand market cornered.

In my personal worst-case scenario, in the YEAR 2035 there comes a tipping point when the cost of extracting the REMAINING OIL from Arab sands becomes too high to justify.

At the same time in 2035, the U.S. has just achieved a scientific/engineering breakthrough, thanks to a sustained $ 1.5 trillion research effort. NUCLEAR FUSION in the U.S. will soon become commercially viable.

Because the Euros dropped out of the international fusion project in 2010, preferring to pay for their out-of-control WELFARE STATES instead, the U.S. understandably is in no mood to share the technology with the Euros for free.

Oil too expensive, U.S. nuclear fusion licenses too expensive, what are the Euros gonna do? COAL is too dirty, nuclear FISSION politically impossible. WIND and WATER power can only make up a small percentage of the total.

The answer? SOLAR ENERGY IN NORTH AFRICA AND ARABIA. Thousands and thousands of square miles of empty desert are tiled with solar cells, and the electricity used for electrolysis, with the hydrogen pumped to Europe to keep their wheels turning.

The Arabs still have the Euros over a barrel, only now it's filled with hydrogen instead of oil. And they keep up breeding like rabbits, and they keep up arming themselves.

Now tell me why my nightmare scenario won't become realistic.

Actually, as it turn out, the US sells Saudia Arabia processed sand for sand blasting and for silicon wafers. Who'd a thunk it?