If oil resources get exhausted someday.how will it effect our lifestyle??

Question

i want 2 knw that how the future lifestyle willl b as without oil n fuel life seems 2 b impossible n so i want 2 think n gt some ideas bout the future lifstyle

Answer 1

Horse & Buggy would have to replace the Car.  Coal would have to replace Oil Heat.  I saw a movie years ago where people had to use chicken droppings to fuel their cars.  If we don't start conserving, it may come to something like that.  Hopefully not the droppings, that's pretty gross.  I'm sure we will find alternate fuel within the next 10 years.

Answer 2

Well, look at some period movies where they use horses for travel, vegetable oil lamps for lighting, horses or other animals for fetching water from long distances etc.

But don't worry. Nuclear energy and other non-conventional energy sources will ensure that you really don't go back in time that much. Fuel cells will ensure personal transportation to some extent.

Answer 3

We will probably return to being a more centralized society, and we will probably use public transportation more often.  It won't be the end of our civilization, but it will cause a significant change in the way that we live.

Answer 4

We have had technology to live without oil for ovee 15 years, but the oil companies want us to keep buying oil and killing earth. Don't worry, we have sources and hopefully we will put them to use soon. We have hydrogen, solar-energy, and ethanol.

Answer 5

I used to wonder what it would be like when the world stopped using proper English grammer and spelling, but its ok, Im still alive.

Answer 6

We have at least 3 times the world supply of oil currently in the US. It's called shale oil. By the time we use even half our oil reserves, we probably won't even need oil any more.

Answer 7

Well, lets see. (1) No cars, trucks, motorcycles, trains, planes, buses. (2) No electricity. (3) More walking, bicycling and general struggle just to do what we do now.

Itll be rough and most of us wont make it but at least in a few million years mother earth will once again be pristine.

Answer 8

What of those days when there's no vehicle? Think backwards what happen then if were not experience history might taught you about the fact. People dried like filter tube pass away their liquid analgesia, that is the sense i having now if something could be.

Answer 9

The implications of a world without oil are actually quite staggering.

Oil is used to make the plastics that we find all around us, like in your I-Pod, TV, auto, and so on.  Petrochemicals are use in many major pharmaceuticals.  

Watch How It's Made on TV sometime, you will be amazed that virtually everything we use in daily life, from toothpicks, lumber, and glassware to Gummy Bears is created using heat from electricity, oil or natural gas.  Not to mention copper, steel, aluminum and other primary ores that require energy for refining.

There is some thought that companies like SASOL of South Africa may grow big as they sell their "coal to oil" processes to countries like the US, which has lots of coal and is running out of oil.  If that is viable, we could see very similar consumption patterns, but it will take major infrastructure to build processing plants.

As we saw in New Orleans after Katrina, it doesn't take a whole lot to turn a society into an animalistic predator and prey environment when there is no power or water.

There is, of course, hope that some better technology will reduce energy demand, which will allow substitution of solar, wind and tidal energy to replace reduced petroleum-related demand and usage.

I would hope people read more books and watch less TV, take a walk instead of playing video games and talk to (and listen to) each other instead of just blogging.

Answer 10

This is precisely the reason why Bush attacked Iraq. He wanted to have control on the oil wells of Iraq. it is  here I again talk of using environmental friendly vehicles, the bicycles or the battery operated vehicles or electric scooters.

Answer 11

Tulika,

You and everyone reading this who drives must see this preview.  It answers your question completely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHr8Ozalo...

The full video can be found on the internet.  It is absolutely eye opening.

Hopefully we will find cost efficient alternatives sooner rather than later, because the clock is ticking.

more here:  http://endofsuburbia.com/

Good luck everyone!

Answer 12

If they don't develop a renewable energy when the fossil fuels are depleted, life a we know it now will be completely upside down. Get use to riding a bicycle and using candles for light and burning wood to stay warm.

Answer 13

There have been great advances in the last few years to make us less dependent of oil. Synthetic oil, bio diesel, Corn gas , hydrogen fuel cells, compressed air powered cars, electric cars.. all making great advances towards making us less dependent on oil. I relly think you will see improvements to our lifestyle because of it. People have to stop saying "not in my back yard" regarding alternative power generating plants and such.