what will we replace oil with when it runs out?

Question

what will be the main mode of transportation when oil is no longer available?

Answer 1

Best bet will be ethanol. You can make it from any sugar containing plant.
Also hydrogen. It can be made using solar/wind power. Also have zero harmful emission (only water and oxygen)
A lot of cars will be able to go on electricity alone. That can be generated using nuclear, wind, hydro(water) ocean currents and ocean waves. Solar technology might get better.

Answer 2

Our country has 500 years worth of oil within its own borders. That's assuming there aren't undiscovered sources (which is unlikely). All told, there is probably 1000 years worth of oil in the world, at least, assuming the rest of the world industrializes up to our standard. Much more than that if the third world remains third world (which it seems to be doing).

But, it is unlikely we will use anywhere close to all of it. Nuclear fusion technology is getting pretty close to a reality. I'd say another 10 years before it replaces all the world's energy use with clean, safe, functionally unlimited centralized energy that cannot be utilized for war and has no pollution.

Once that happens, it's just a matter of distribution. Probably, electricity will become the dominant power source for anything and everything. All vehicles will be electric but much more powerful than today's electric vehicles and much more environmentally friendly to dispose of when they wear out.

My point is that oil supply is a complete non-issue. There is just no way it will run out.

Answer 3

CNG and/or LPG. People are frantically working for pure energy using hydrogen and oxygen and you will get water in the exhaust. Work is going on in hybrid vehicles using stored battery power and the day is not far when this type of vehicle take over. So do not worry it is not end of the world. Right now, Oil is the cheapest alternative and hence we are depended on oil once oil become costly or dries out, other alternatives will take over.

Answer 4

Your answer can be found in The Ultimate Resource II, by Julian Simon (or Simon Julian). In short, our brains are the ultimate resource, and we will invent another source or substitute for whatever happens to be in short supply. For reference, a similar question was asked about coal 2 centuries ago. There is more discovered coal now than there was then, and we use little of ot now because better energy sources are available.

Answer 5

in two or three countries in south America. I have heard of an electronic fuel injection system that allows the engine to burn Any type of liquid or vapour fuel. [cannot verify] but am trying to.
currently most diesel engines will burn canola oil,corn oil flax seed oil, etc, with only miner tuning adjustments and or thinning the oil a little bit

Answer 6

Nucular Power

Answer 7

Windmills will be used to generate steady electric current, which will be used to separate water into hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen is the cleanest fuel you can possibly imagine, considering the waste products are already super-abundant on the surface of the earth; when you burn hydrogen, you get water.

Answer 8

They say hydrogen fuels, electric powered cars...but, one method that is working greatly as we speak, is "biodiesel" and its made from soy, corn, animal fats...believe it or not, willy nelson, has his own biodiesel fuel station in south carolina...that is where I personally believe we'll end up at...but, in this kind of chain, isn't funny how it all goes back to the importance of the farming communities? We may soon see, that expansion of these buildings upon farming soils will cease to exist in such said areas...in the future, it will be because of the little farmers, that saves us in the end....land is more precious than gold or concrete buildings...think about it...look it up...and open your eyes...l8r

Answer 9

Electric, solar power, fuel cells, the possibilities are only limited by our inability to make the move and slow then stop our dependency to foreign oil.

Answer 10

That day will never come in your lifetime!! There are so many untapped Oil Resourses in the south (Louisiana and Texas, Oklahoma) that the threat of running out is just that.....A Threat.