Is the United States running out of oil? If this is true what are we going to do?

Answer 1

well first fly 2 planes into some important building early in the morning before too many workers are there.. but enough to make an impact..

THEN have another plane fly into the pentagon but not hit it directly or in a target area

THEN have another plane APPEAR to be headed for your home but have some "heros" crash it somewhere else...

THEN invade Afghanastan to secure an oil pipeline

THEN invade some oil rich country to get the oil.. maybe make up a storey about how they are terrorists or have weapons or whatever... but make sure your people support you so you can have this war to secure the oil.. in fact it would help if you planted some PRISTINE passports of some "terrorists" on top of the debrie pile from the buildings your first 2 planes crash into....

dont allow the people to question your actions.. just do it.. and keep makeing sure the people are dependant on oil.. make sure they are shopping alot and driving alot and having lots of kids (your army may need them someday)

Answer 2

It's not just the US that's running out -- the ENTIRE WORLD is running out. What you're asking about is something the industry calls "Peak Oil." If you've never seen this site, I encourage you to check it out:
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

Here's the short of it:
Oil is increasingly plentiful on the upslope of the bell curve, increasingly scarce and expensive on the down slope. The peak of the curve coincides with the point at which the endowment of oil has been 50 percent depleted. Once the peak is passed, oil production begins to go down while cost begins to go up.

In practical and considerably oversimplified terms, this means that if 2000 was the year of global Peak Oil, worldwide oil production in the year 2020 will be the same as it was in 1980. However, the world’s population in 2020 will be both much larger (approximately twice) and much more industrialized (oil-dependent) than it was in 1980. Consequently, worldwide demand for oil will outpace worldwide production of oil by a significant margin.

As a result, the price will skyrocket, oil-dependant economies will crumble, and resource wars will explode.

The time to act is now. We need to start conserving our resources immediately -- it's the ONLY way.

Answer 3

The united states has been running out of oil since the 70s. Strangely, more oil is being pumped now than back then. What is really happening is the demand for oil is outstripping supply. This forces up the price of oil. As oil becomes more exprensive we will switch to alternative energy sources and this process is already under way.

Answer 4

Many disagree that the States is running out of oil. If you watch Glenn Beck on Headline News right now he discusses an alternative to buying oil from the Middle East.

Answer 5

US oil production peaked back in the early 1970s.
Middle East oil production will peak in about 2013.
In total, the world is passing peak oil production about now.

Oil production relates to the size of the total oil resource. Production (of any natural resource) follows a bell curve, like a normal distribution curve. That means that at the peak of production, we have used half of the resource. Consequently we can predict that in 50 years time, oil production from easily accessible fields will be down to 10% of current values. (If you are wondering, exploration is replacing only a few percent of the reserves we are using each year.)

There are other sources of oil, like oil shale, but the cost of production is very high. The refinement process takes up half of the energy produced, so CO2 emissions will be double for shale oil.

Expect oil prices to soar by a factor of 5 to 10 in the next twenty years. That will completely change society.

Two solutions:-
1. Reduce energy useage, insulate houses, travel less, cut out electronics stand by load, and in general get used to thinking about energy useage, instead of thinking about it like water from a tap.
2. Invest in alternative enrgy sources, but paying attention to the environmental consequences.

Next problem. If we want to stop climate change, we will have to choose to leave the oil (and coal) in the ground.
The market will never do that, so it has to be a political decision.
Possible?
Difficult.

The alternative is: carry on using energy in whatever way the market drives us, and risk that energy prices will change so fast that the world economy will collapse.
Armageddon.

Answer 6

I dunno, and I could care less, when we finally get sick of the oil barons we're going to turn to more efficient fuel sources, hopefully not nuclear power because imagine what would happen if 2 nuke cares got into a wreck? buh-bye every major city on the planet.

They'll prolly either go to electric cars and make em more efficient, or fiddle with this Hydrogen powered car they're working on, Hydrogen is pretty damn plentiful and you can technically run a car with nothing BUT hydrogen by blowing a stream directly onto the carburator.

Answer 7

lol @ what YOU are going to do! The USA is already doing something! and that is invading other countries! And besides, you already have lots of nulcear power stations. You guys need to stop taking stupid road trips, boosting your entertainment industry and polluting the rest of the world.

Answer 8

no, we have 100 years worth of oil in the ground, and we have 300 years worth in shale rock in the midwest

Answer 9

buy it from other countries. In my country we don't manufacture cars and boats but we still use them. so it's simple. I will buy your FORD and GM and sell you oil.