When are fossil fuels going to run out?

Question

When are fossil fuels going to run out?

Answer 1

never they will just become harder to recover

Answer 2

Since we have no idea of the amount of fossil fuels available the question is unanswerable...You gotta' know how much is left in the gas tank before you can estimate when your car is going to stop running.

Answer 3

I dont know when they are going to run. What i do know is that we still have ALOT still in the states and off shore. Ofcourse we cant touch them because of protected habitats etc...

Answer 4

Well really many years but then there are the economics questions, and the enviromental ones. There is coal for many years in Wales and a lot in Scotland and the UK. The same applies to the US, Germany, and many other countries but its more economic to get it from elsewhere, now oil, there is a lot of oil but too good or fuel, or too difficult at present to extract. Really other methods must be found that are going to allow space exploration that does not use earth fuel resources but allow useable materials from elsewhere.

Answer 5

NEVER and I'll tell you why. Thanks to thatcher and scargill who ended up closing the pits all around UK. However one thing that a guy called Richard Budge did when he closed his last pits along the Selby minefield, he made sure that the joists and timbers, plus the entrances and exits were suitable to last another 20 years. There is  millions of tonnes of coal left under Yorkshire and Lincolnshire and when OIL runs out, or gas runs out then someone will be able to reopen the mines to extract coal again. This has implications of course, habitat, environment and pollution but you won't see it in your life time but I guess that we will end up going back in time to the foundry days

Answer 6

The classic oil resources will be very soon exhausted, in less than 35-45 years, this will be over.

With the oil shales and tar sands, maybe 15-20 years more.

The gas is more abundant. You can expect for more than 70 years.

With coal, lignite and peat, we can stretch up to 200 years.

Voila ! Pretty depressing isn't it ?

Answer 7

I think there saying around 2020 no one really knows but at this rate we are going maybe another 50 years?