Good God! Have you lived in a cave the LAST 50 years?! 50 years from now, we'll have micro size nuclear reactors powering our homes and cars. Devices will use micro fractions of the energy they use today. You'll say "oil" and kids will say "Huh? What's that grampa?"
Wake Up and smell the advancing technology.
If there have been lots of advances in alternative energr sources lately then great; I just don't seem to hear about them, and I think many others would agree with me on that point. In fact, the only real alternative to oil that I have heard about is ethanol, which as we are learning is a disaster on many levels!
LOL! I remember Popular Science articles saying Nuclear energy was going to be so cheap electricity would be free! (But those were in the '60s).
If those of us 'dinosaurs' who have been at this a quarter century or more did not keep plugging along, and keep up with new technology (Jeez, I remember plotting drill rate on velum, lettering with a LeRoy set, and printing with the Godawful ammoniated Diazo process, which made a Schlumberger truck no place to be while they were printing logs, either--Damn, I'm positively Paleozoic!). , you would be riding your bicycle and be thankful you had tires on it.
While there have been some good ideas out there, ones which have made improvements, and there are more coming in all the time, If I had a dollar for every snotnosed know it all who told the rest of us we didn't know a crown block from a kelly bushing, I'd own a small country somewhere nice.