how much longer coal, oil and gas will be around when we continue to use it at the current rate?

Question

thanx for answering

Answer 1

here is the problem

'experts' tell us we are running out of oil - BUT

Old oil fields that used to pump 13-15,000 barrels a day
and dropped down to 4,000 - were shut down to put the
energy into 'better fields'

after a few years they came back - and WOWEEEE
we're pumping 8-10,000 barrels a day now - again!

so where did the oil come from ?

no new dinosaurs died (and how did dinosaurs get 5,000 feet
below the surface of the Earth?)

oh my - does the earth generate Oil?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!


are we suckers - or what? The arabs are laughing up their sleeves

Answer 2

For good or bad, there are large reserves out in the Gulf of Mexico, oil shale in the Rockies, coal in the Rockies and in the West.
The idea of our being at a mid-point, the so-called Peak Oil scenario, is just a ruse to hike prices. They're in cohoots with each other, the Oilagarchy, headed by your (Vice) President.
The big grab is on, and they mean to stay on top. You watch.

The price, and making the sale, is the core of their strategy.
Only if they could make such profits on alternative sources of energy, would they, the energy sector, advance solar and other exotic non-polluting technologies.

So, if you're looking for a realistic number, I'm afraid it's all tied up in political and corporate planimetrics.

But there is hope, notwithstanding geopolitical conundrums:
http://www.teslamotors.com/ (forget "hybrid")
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-570288889128950913&q=biofuels&hl=en
and here is a link to a company producing "cheap" solar voltaic cell products, which they claim they can "print" instead of utilizing silicon sheets and vacuum processing, which is expensive.
http://www.nanosolar.com/technology.htm

Knowing how much energy is left in the ground is not the answer that will help us.
Knowing how not to add to the carbon footprint, is.

As an aside, wind power is feasible, but there are problems with that, too, environmentally. These could be overcome, or otherwise dealt with, in the near future:
http://www.pacificpower.net/Article/Article55696

Answer 3

I suspect your 40th or 50th generation descendant will be asking that question.

Answer 4

Probably for another century at the most.

Answer 5

you tell us how much we got and i'll tell you how long it will last, that fair enough ?