When we run out of oil what will be there to replace it?

Question

Since the world is so dependent on oil including me I wonder what the world would be like without it?

Answer 1

Keragen from oil shale, liquids from coal, liquids from gas.

Answer 2

The replacement must come before we run out of reachable oil otherwise we will not be able to replace much of anything because we would still need fossil fuel vehicles to make the transition.Your car needs gasolene for you to get to the car shop to replace it with a renewable energy vehicle.

Electricity is the best replacement for vehicles if we have high capacity batteries.High capacity energy storage devices have always been difficult to create.We can hope this will change in the future.

Solar panels,windmills,Hydrogen cell etc.All these technologies convert one energy form into another called electricity.

Answer 3

solar, wind, electricity

Answer 4

"WE" won't run out of oil. There is enough oil in just Alaska to last over 500 years. Where will you be in 500 years?

Answer 5

Coal to liquids will last 50 or so years.

Athena- the "liberal media"   is owned by very conservative corporations.   Just because they say things you don't like doesn't make them liberal.   Remember how the liberal media treated Clinton?   Probably much too young for that though.   Notice how the "liberal" media has treated Mr. Bush?    He's getting it pretty light for attacking the wrong country for nothing.   No, Iraq didn't support terrorists, have WMD's or have anything to do with 9/11/01.

Answer 6

ethenol pollutes more than gasoline, and we are sitting on the biggest oil reserve in the world but the liberal communist won't let us drill it up

Answer 7

Eathanol or bio fuels are out, because there isn't enough farm land to grow enough each year to fuel the entire country.

The hip thing now-a-days is hydrogen fuel cells, and their emmisions are:

water...

Answer 8

Who can tell me why they put pipes in the ground and burn off methane gas instead of putting it to use as an alternative fuel? They already have alternative fuels that are available, some are inexpensive to harvest, yet wouldn't create a great revenue or make it worthwhile and others are too expensive to harvest in a way that would generate a profit. If you grow crops for this purpose, how do you prevent this from becoming a consumer food product. Some stores don't even know the difference between fodder corn and corn people eat.

Answer 9

Also most forms of Ethanol make more pollution than they save.  We have geo-thermal power, solar, but that is still inefficient and expensive, there's also hydro electric, but that can damage eco-systems, and their is hyrdogen fuel cells as stated earlier, those look like a good bet, we just have to fund it.  THAT MEANS YOU BUSH  Wow Athena your wrong, even if we dont run out of oil its insanely inefficient and pollutes.... earth hater

Answer 10

lots of things left to burn on the planet.

Answer 11

In support of Frank N, the Bush Administration has made huge progress harnessing the Earth's geothermal energy to generate electricity to create hydrogen.  We now have fleets of H-powered vehicles running around and the Army has H-powered trucks built by GM.

Answer 12

A number of people, including my older cousin, have told me that in the 1970s the liberals were telling people that the world would be out of oil by the year 2000.

In the 1980s the liberal media were telling people the ozone layer would be gone by the year 2000.  And also in the 1980s the liberal media were telling people that the Amazon rain forest would be gone by the late 1990s.  They are all still with us.

A hugh discovery of oil was just made of the coast of Brazil.  That is just one among the many discoveries that occur all the time.  We are not going to run out of oil any time soon.

Just for the record man cannot cause global warming by burning fossil fuels.  So fill you tank, take a drive, and enjoy.  Whatever you do don't worry.

*** Notice how the liberal below immediately resorts to name calling.  Bush is a dummy, I am an Earth hater.  The liberals just can't argue the issues.