Fate of fuel?

Question

in how many yrs will petrol and diesel expected to get exhausted??????

Answer 1

They've been predicting that we will run out of oil within 25 years for about 25 years now.  What happens is that as technology improves cars become more fuel efficient and we discover ways to utilize oil that was previously thought to be unusable or inaccessible.  It's doubtful that oil will run out within your lifetime however alternative fuels are still a good idea for environmental, economic and security reasons.

Answer 2

next 20 yrs

Answer 3

We will not live till then!lol.......

by the way...I dont know boss!

Answer 4

It wont run out, but it will get so expensive that you would choose not to buy it anymore.

Short answer less than 20 years. Possibly 5 or 10.

Fuel production is limited, but the demand is increasing faster than refineries could be built, and faster than oil can be pumped form the well. Also oil it being used way faster than it is being discovered. So supply and demand says that it will get expensive.

Oil is generated very slowly in nature, we use it thousands of times faster than it is generated in nature. So it will get depleted,  as this happens it will get more expensive. In the last 20 years or so we used more oil than in the previous 150 years, there is about a half of the original total left. But much of the remainder will be hard and expensive to get, because we take the easiest oil first. So people now are trying to find alternatives such as bio fuel.

Over the next 15 years fuel will get very expensive. You will realize a there is a problem if the money used to buy fuel to drive to work each week exceeds the pay that you get from working each week. So you will car pool or take the bus or train to work. There is not really any other way you can continue to live your life the same as it is now, if you use or need to drive a car a lot. If you are really rich, so rich that you don't need to go to work, this might not be a problem.

The problem with bio fuel is that the crops need to be planted by machine (which use fuel), and furtalised (fertilizer is mostly made form natural gas, which is fuel) and harvested by machines (that use fuel), then trucked to a factory to be processed into fuel, then transported (by trucks that use fuel) to a gas station. So the problem is that it takes a lot of fuel to make the bio fuel. Which means that it can't really be cheap. It might actually calculate out to make a gallon of fuel, uses more than a gallon of fuel, which is net wastage, does not create fuel overall.

Second bio fuel is made on farms that are used to make food, so that means that the more bio fuel we make, the less food we can have.

So it works out that the best thing to do is to design and use very, very  efficient cars and take your friends to work with you.

Answer 5

They r natural resources... They r not in the hands of human to destroy or produce.

Answer 6

I have to answer in a slightly different way.....

Petrol and PetrolDiesel will run out soon in the Gulf Regions around 15 years.  This is when their crude oil reserves dry up.  

However, Diesel, and to be precise Biodiesel will never run out...... Because WVO (Waste Vegetable Oil) will always be there.   Waste Vegetable Oil can be used as Biodiesel and as long as we keep on growing sunflowers, rapeseed and olives and many more... we won't run out of diesel...

So it won't be end of the world.  The only concern with WVO is its cleanliness.  Certain vegetable oil i.e. not Waste Vegetable Oil can also be used as Biodiesel so cheaper and sustainable fuel is there all the time.

When Rudolf Diesel (the inventor of diesel engine) first exhibited his machines,, they were running on peanut oil.  However the petro-oil barons and businessmen those days were so freaked out that they made sure diesel engines uses petrol diesel and not biodiesel...

It's going too long now......... so to summarise my answer,,, if we use biodiesel we can still use our cars and machines which run on diesel till the last day of the world.....

Answer 7

Based on the most recent report last month Peak oil will occur between 2008 and 2018.

Very informative read.  Makes you rethink a lot of things.  Here's the link:

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007/03/...

Answer 8

As fossil fuels are limited and stock will sooner or later be consumed at rapid pace it is depleting there is no option to finding alternatives which are renewable! Hence Bio fuels are increasing but should be developed mainly on Wastelands! This is practical necessity for future Growth of economy !

Answer 9

the sooner the better i guess. we will be able to reduce pollution if that happens. what do you say????

Answer 10

In next 5 to 10 years, if we continue using pertol and diesel fuel, the pollution in the earth's atmosphere will increase by 80%.

Answer 11

if and if  gulf bo not burn in war, if there is no natural calamity, no nuclear war than it will last to your life time

Answer 12

with the current rate of production and consumption, about 50 years, then US and Russia will open their sources and dominate the economy via OIL

Answer 13

Actually the answer about using biodiesel is somewhat innaccurate.  While it is a renewable resource for operating vehicles, there is the problem of supply of vegetable oils.  I remember reading that we would have to devote almost the entire land mass of the US to crop production to produce enough veggie oil to make as much biodiesel as the amount of gas we currently use.

As far as crude oil, there is tons out there and more is constantly being made.  For me, price alone is a good enough reason to make cars more efficient and look into alternatives.