2007-01-20 21:11:41 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
People have been predicting the end of the oil supply, starting about a week after it was first discovered.
Technology advances keep the oil coming. And, it seems like the idea that oil is a fossil fuel may be incorrect. Some scientists now think that oil is produced deep in the earth's mantle. This would explain why some oil fields in Pennsylvania and the Gulf of Mexico, thought to be tapped out, seem to be refilling.
And think about it. Do you really think that the current rate of production, something close to ONE HUNDRED MILLION BARRELS A DAY, was all created by past animal and plant life? Doesn't make sense, does it?
2007-01-20 21:26:47 · answer #1 · answered by Jolly1 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There is a scientific theory that all oil was formed during the Carboniferous Age, early in the Earth's developmental history. This theory proposes that all the oil that was formed then was formed during that period and no more was formed after the Carboniferous Age. Within the next 25 years or so, bio-diesel will take off like a tornado. Bio-diesel is oil harvested from oily plants like corn, beans, etc. Some countries in South America already rely heavily on Ethanol, which they produce abundantly and cheaply for their citizens.
Then all those greedy SOBs in the Middle East can go eat their petroleum for all I care!
2007-01-21 10:47:46 · answer #2 · answered by correrafan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are pumping way too much oil and within emptying the resources much faster then the earth can reganerate it's oil "reserves". That is why we wil run out of oil in the next 50-80 years! So alternitive sources will be needed and now is the time to start.
2007-01-21 05:22:12 · answer #3 · answered by Mirko S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's only so much oil to be mined and it has just recently been announced that the world has just reached the peak of all the world's oil. In other words, we are now using the last half of the world's supply, it will run out sooner rather than later.
Can you please tell me why you know the oil will not run out??
2007-01-21 05:20:04 · answer #4 · answered by melowd 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why don't you tell us why it won't?
The rate at which oil deposits are being discovered is getting slower and slower, and the size of the deposits smaller and smaller - why wouldn't we run out if we keep using it at the rate we are?
2007-01-21 05:16:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can tell you that it will definitely run out.
2007-01-21 05:22:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
is this a chicken and egg question.?
2007-01-21 22:37:22 · answer #7 · answered by thevillageidiotxxxx 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋