Do you think within the next 30 years we wont need gasoline? and hence be indpendent from the middle east?

Question

Do you think within the next 30 years we will stop using gasoline for cars? And if so would we still depends on the middle east? since we are the largest oil consumer how would it effect them?

Answer 1

I would like to see if they can eat it. Oil is still our best fuel as the earth has been recycling fossil fuels with plants for million's of years.

Answer 2

Maybe, Hydrogen is becoming a good canidate for cars. There's also Hydrogen/Electric hybrids

Answer 3

No, gasoline is here to stay

Answer 4

In all probablility that's exactly what will happen.  In 30 years we'll likely still be using some oil--but far less than now (and it won't be imported--that segment of our supply will be the first to go as demand falls).  And--that is going to happen regardless of global warming or the geopolitics.  Technology is changing.  Oil was once the "cheap" as well as convenient way to power our transportation and produce electriccity.  Bt new technologies are rapidly reaching the point where they will be MORE cost-effective--and that will kill oil/coal as a primary source of energy.

As for the Middle East, in part it depends on the country.  Places like Dubai are looking to the future and building up their (non-oil-related) economy.  They'll do fine.  Others won't.  Overall, the Mideeast will suffer a decline in geopolitical influence--and the troublemakers will quiet down (some, anyway) because they will no longer have the leverage they have now.

Answer 5

The real fear is the middle east becoming independent of us! Why do you think we are causing war there.

Answer 6

I doubt we will be independent in 30 years, although we might be using less gas so we aren't totally dependent on them. Right now more money is going into research about other areas instead of cutting down gas, so in 30 years the problem might not be entirely solved.

Answer 7

We will develop alternate fuel vehicles when all the oil in the world is used up, and the oil companies have to find another means of making MONEY!. They already have the vehicles, but won't produce them as long as oil is available.

BTW, the oil companies and the auto industry are controlled by the same small handful of men, and G. W. Bush ain't among them.

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Answer 8

It is very possible. As we continue to develope alternative energy for transportation and power generation, we will become less and less dependent on foiegn oil.

Brazil is actually a world leader in development of alternatives to gasoline. They went from an 85% dependence on imported oil to less than a 15% dependence. They grow sugar cane and use it to produce ethanol and them mix the ethanol with gasoline. This mixture is 85% ethanol.

Those who only think of corn when making ethanol are not informed. In the U.S., we can grow ad use many things from switch grass to sugar beets to produce ethanol much more easily and cheaply than corn.

Answer 9

Probably not in 30 years, probably not in the foreseeable future for that matter.