how long do you think we have untill we run out of oil and start using electric cars or somthing?

Answer 1

Before we run out, it will become gradually scarcer, and more expensive. Oil output has probably peaked already, so as global oil output declines, it will contnue to become more expensive.
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This will drive the innovation to discover other energy sources, so that, over time, alternative cars will gradually appear. The transition will not be sudden. But oil and gas will eventually become so expensive that nobody uses it anymore
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So it will never run out. People will just stop using it.

Answer 2

There is more oil than you can possible imaginge waiting to be brought up from the Gulf alone.

Electric cars, though, are just around the corner. The Big Four motorcycle companies all have electric scooters and MCs in R&D. They are developing fuel cells, as well.
Hybrids are gaining popularity , in my town, too.

Answer 3

We want run out as we are using 70% of everyone elses. We also have a hundred year supply of emergency coal buried in the western states. Get this. We import coal, and coke from South Africa as it is cheaper than getting it from the local miners, especially in the south due to wages. In other words we operate the steam plants from foreign coal...

Answer 4

About 125-150 years...but it WILL get more expensive gradually...We will still use oil as long as it is the cheapest fuel....when it is not we will use something else!

Answer 5

The day we run out is the day people will worry about what to use instead.

Answer 6

I beleive we will not run out for many years and if we do we will use methonal which is a renewable fuel

Answer 7

28 minutes.

Answer 8

Their predictions are that we will be running critically low by 2026.

Answer 9

10,000 years or so...there is plenty of oil...getting to it is the chore...

Answer 10

well, I think, we won't :P