Best guess known reserves are 4 trillion barrels of oil. We burn 90 million barrels a day world wide. Barrel of oil = 42 gallons.
2006-09-22 06:55:04 · 6 answers · asked by Mr Smartty Pants 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
My 3 oz can of WD-40 has lasted for years.
2006-09-22 06:58:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think America can last around 50 years on so on the oil reserves that we have...as for how much the Middle East has in reserve and still in the ground...well, there's no way of knowing for sure.
4 trillion barrels? That's a lot...I mean, that's an amazing amount....it should last for hundreds of years...probably a few thousand at that.
Whether humans screw up the environment and kill each other by that time still remains to be seen.
2006-09-22 07:04:33 · answer #2 · answered by Shaun 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Let's put it this way
The earth produces the oil or at least we keep finding it in new places. Technology is improving everyday. In a few years new cars won't even need oil to run on.
But by your math problem it would be about 127 3/4 years
So I would not worry about it any time soon
4,000,000,000,000 / 90,000,000= 44,444.44
44,444.44 / 365= 127.7656
2006-09-22 07:07:54 · answer #3 · answered by rranderson1968 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My teacher said it predicted to last for only a couple hundread years, which is why we are trying to switch before it becomes a major problem.
2006-09-22 07:03:32 · answer #4 · answered by Devin R 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It depends since it's a fossil fuel on how fast the Earth continues to make more.....
2006-09-22 07:00:46 · answer #5 · answered by Love always, Kortnei 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
AS SOON AS VENENZUELA CUTS US OFF.
2006-09-22 07:02:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋