What would happen if humanity ran out of oil read details please.?

Question

What im saying is when the oil reserves and gasoline eventually runs out in the future what would happen to the human civilization.

Answer 1

Hopefully by then humanity will have come up with alternative energy sources. Oil is used in many more ways than most people realize and our whole existance would change drastically by not having it available but we would adapt. Something like that would most likely happen over a pro-longed period of time giving the world a heads-up.

Answer 2

First, remember that people have been saying that the end of our oil supply was "imminent" since at least the 1970's. As of today, new reserves are still being discovered, in addition to new drilling and development techniques with further expand our ability to harvest energy.

If the global oil supply does run out or reach a level that cannot keep up with demand, new technologies will be developed A) out of necessity and B) because the free market will become lucrative for new research.

However, given the growth of technology, it is most likely that new technologies will emerge long before oil consumption hits a critical mass. We are already seeing manufacturers freely develop more energy efficient solutions as well as alternative energy options for industry and consumers.

If anything threatens an abrupt interruption to oil supply, it is regional or even global warfare based in the world's energy-producing regions. Of course, that's a different discussion for a different question for a different day.

Answer 3

There is a series of books about this very possibility. They are very interesting and well-written. The author is Terri Blackstock. The first book in the series is "Last Light", and it offers insights that the average person might not think about. Ms. Blackstock portrays the indominitable human spirit quite well, while still showing how complacent society has become. It is well worth one's time to read this fine author. The work is fiction, but the facts are right on the money.

Answer 4

I don't think we have to worry about that anytime soon with the recent discovery that has been publicized on 9/2006 - Huge Chevron Gulf Oil Discovery - that is just as big as the mideastern oil. Yes, it will take to 2010 to refine it, but this great news has not been given the airtime it deserves.

So you can rest easy - and not worry about it. Oil is here in the US for a long time.

Answer 5

Be assurred full global implementation of internal combustible engine fuel alternatives will be in effect way before that happens. A red flag such would take place would be the evident stratospheric per gallon price of oil; OPEC's "last hurrah" at grubbing billions in oil profits.

Not long after such, a given five or so years later, OPEC will pretty much be out of the oil baron business.

Answer 6

Likely nothing. We are already researching and using a number of alternate fuel sources. There is still lots of oil. Most likely never run out.

Answer 7

We would revert to a pre-industrialized society. What you are describing is collectively known among intellectuals as the "Olduvai theory."

The Olduvai theory was first introduced by Richard C. Duncan, Ph.D. in 1989. He presented it in his paper, "The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road to the Olduvai Gorge", at the Summit 2000 Pardee Keynote Symposia of the Geological Society of America, on November 13, 2000. The name is a reference to the Olduvai Gorge in Africa. The Olduvai theory provides a modern argument supporting the Malthusian catastrophe.

The Olduvai theory states that industrial civilization will have a lifetime of less than or equal to 100 years.

The Industrial Civilization is defined in Duncan's paper as the time from when energy production per capita rises above 30% of its peak to when it falls below 30% of its peak. The 30% point is 3.32 boe/c/yr (barrels of oil equivalent per capita per year). The peak is 11.15 boe/c/yr and occurred in 1979.

The part of the decline from 1979 to 1999 is called the Olduvai slope. The rest is predicted to occur in two stages:

* The Olduvai slide (2000–2011) - 'may resemble the "Great Depression" of 1929 to 1939: unemployment, breadlines, and homelessness'
* The Olduvai cliff (2012–2030) - 'I know of no precedent in human history.'

In terms of energy, world oil production per capita also peaked in 1979 and has since fallen faster than world energy consumption per capita. The paper does not mention that standards of living have nevertheless improved significantly since 1979 because energy-efficiency has increased, or that such increases would likely accelerate if energy became more scarce. Neither does it address the fact that during the oil shocks of the 1970s, total energy consumption (including oil, coal, gas, nuclear and renewables) was essentially flat despite a precipitous drop of 17% in crude oil production within a few years (as production of other sources increased to compensate for the reduction in oil supply), and that economic growth continued during this time and has continued robustly since.

Answer 8

the theory behind a multi-viscosity oil is to paintings off of temperature. you desire a decrease variety interior the iciness even as it really is chilly and a more beneficial variety interior the summer even as it really is warm. in accordance to how warm your summer is, I don`t see a situation with a 2040 or a 2050 blend if it slows your oil intake. you could also pass to a instantly 30, 40 or 50 weight oil that matches your climate.

Answer 9

One word: ethanol.

Brazil has already made tremendous strides in replacing its petroleum reliance with ethanol. It has many advantages: it is nearly as efficient in energy per unit volume as gasoline (about 80%), but it is carbon-neutral because the plants that are distilled to make ethanol consume carbon dioxide as they grow. (Technically, so did fossil fuels; but that carbon has been sequestered for hundreds of millions of years underground. Corn traps carbon immediately.) Also, technological strides are making it easier to produce; Monsanto has developed genetically modified corn that actually turn itself into ethanol!

Answer 10

That all comes down to what we do about it before it happens... meaning if we find alternatives then we will be find. If not, then our entire way of life will change with massive starvation, disease, etc...