When will Fossil Fuel go extinct?

Question

Just asking if anyone knows when Fossil Fuel would end...

Answer 1

Fossil fuels include oil, coal, natural gas and others. Oil is the one most people mean when they say fossil fuels. Some is just waiting to be pumped out of the ground like in Saudi Arabia, some is heavier and harder to extract like in Venezuela, and some is locked into tar sands and oil shale. There is an estimated 1.3 Trillion barrels of oil in Athabasca, in Alberta Canada, which is as much as the rest of the oil reserves put together. We're not likely to run out any time soon despite fear-mongering about Peak Oil.

Answer 2

About 5 years ago, in my geology class, it was estimated that there will be not more fossil fuel come 2050. I think that year has changed though considering the increase in suburban life and the number of drivers on the roads today, and the lack of alternative fuel readily at hand.

Answer 3

What do u mean by that kind of question

Answer 4

Actually fossil fuel may be an incorrect term. Carbon dioxide be be turned directly into hydrocarbons, the building blocks of oil. Carbon dioxide also seeps into the ground just like water. If the carbon dioxide and water are exposed to a hot area and compressed they would form oil, oil shale, natural gas deposits, etc.  It is likely that oil sites today may have had volcanic activity sometime 10s of thousand of years in the past.

So is it possible that we will never run out of oil. But it is more likely that we have exceeded the speed that this world can produce it no matter what the method.

Answer 5

The imminent demise of oil supplies has been predicted on a regular basis since about 1910.  This doesn't mean that there's an infinite supply of the stuff, but it does mean that we're awfully clever at digging it out.  So nobody really knows.  For all we know, we're coming to the end of the line right now: Indonesia has just left OPEC because they've run out, and the Saudi fields are showing their age as well.

Answer 6

Oil might only last a few more decades.  Coal will last centuries.

Answer 7

Would U believe never.!!!

  Do u under stand the water cycle here on earth???

  Do U understand how plants recycle CO2 into oxygen. The plants keep the C to make food for the plants.

   The plants is where the fossil plants not animal. All oils come from plants not animals.

  So the plants are recycling the CO2 into fossil fuels all the time. Our present fossil fuel comes from the plants leaves die they wash down the river to the delta where it deteriorates into oil & gas.