do you think there will be any gas left in 5 years?

Question

i mean at the rate were going it doesnt look like we are

Answer 1

There is a great deal of oil left. Oil companies are even capping wells now and saving the oil for the future when the prices get even higher. There is oil sands in Canada, I believe there is oil shale in the U.S.A. They can even make oil from coal, coal which the U.S.A. is awash with. People forget that the earth could be creating more oil as we speak. The process that created the oil that we use now still could be going on. Even so with the price of gasoline I am thinking of trying this product, http://ca40g.com/ I heard about it on the same radio show two days in a row.

Answer 2

Yes there will be gas in 5 years. One problem I see is that the EPA had restricted oil companies from expanding at least with the population growth. I see the refineries ability to produce enough gasoline and home heating products as being behind the population growth over the past 30 years by as much as 17%.
The population has been growing over the 30 year period that the refineries have been restricted. With a population growth around 2%, this number can be directly transferred to the number of new drivers and home owners/renters coming into the markets.
Then there is another thing, an aging population. This means there are fewer drivers going off the roads annually.

There was an article about something called Peak Oil. Supposedly, this means we are heading into the bottom half of the worlds oil reserves.
I can see where this should only lead into a gradual price increase. But nothing like what we have been looking at, at least until we reach the projected year of Peak Oil, (2020).

The markets and the price of oil only started raising drastically when the Revised Clean Air Act went into effect on April 1, 2000. This called for more MTBE's to be added to gasoline and oxygenated gasoline as cleaner burning fuels.

Me personally I would not buy oxygenated gasoline. because of the basic science of liquids and gas. In this case gasoline is the liquid and oxygen is the gas. I can oxygenate an aquarium as easily as they oxgenate gasoline. If you fill your vehicle with oxygenated gasoline you will have less gasoline after a few days and not by just running the vehicle. In otherwords you are sold a short gallon of gasoline, if you buy this stuff. Now if you had an oxygen pump in your gas tank then it would be a different matter.

There are several things contributing to the problem, most of it policy and the rest I attribute to what I call overzealous environmentalism. This type of environmentalism does not take the population and its growth into consideration as part of the environment.

Answer 3

Why would there not be gas (gasoline, I assume)? Crude oil is produced in nature every second of every day. It is estimated that there far more oil reserves yet discovered than we are drawing from now. The 'shortage' of gasoline is a man made problem, having little to do with the availability of the natural crude. The US ecolo-freaks keep us from drilling in the Alaskan reserves, Gulf of Mexico, Mid Atlantic Shelf, and the Pacific shelf. Even the crude we import which we really should not need to at all, we cannot refine efficiently due to our not having built a new refinery in decades, and the ones we do have spend a huge percentage of their production time being cleaned up for EPA dictated blends rather than producing fuel. AND the biggest reason of all is we still use oil to generate electricity. Truly stupid. Again the whacko types keep us from building Nuclear Power generation facilities. Bringing atomic power generation on line would clean up the air, greatly reduce the total amounts of oil the US uses, and lower the cost of electricity greatly.

Answer 4

Yes there will be gas in 50 yrs. Quit listening to the media, check it out for yourself. Oil is a replenishing mineral. More has been discovered off the coast of New Zealand, there is an abundance of it in the North West, this is all a conspiricy for the rich to get richer......Dont take my word for it, research it yourself. There are products that will allow autos to get gas mileage that is out of this world, but the powers that be will not mass market them because of what it would do to supply and demand. It is just like curing cancer. If that were to happen it would crush the medical profession. Think about it.

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Answer 5

Yes, there will be. Along with using all the fuel we consume, there are many efforts to make a usable renewable fuel from biological products. It is not impossible, it is actually quite simple. The main problem bio-fuels have is that money makes the world go 'round, and money controls oil, and oil is big money. Oil execs have paid a lot to make the effort of bio-fuels seem fruitless and useless when in fact it is quite successful. In the long run bio-fuels will reign and will cause the price of fossil fuels to balance out or go down, toppling the oil giants. But if you want to start riding a bicycle to work, by all means, do it. It's better for you, me and the environment as well as keeps your fuel bill lower...

Answer 6

yes there will be gas. The oil companies dont want to build new refineries right now. Because they cost too much money and they like there profits. There tons of oil and gasses left but the cost to refine and drill it is another story. And the locations to drill is difficult. OSHA ect. If when an we do run out, we invented the gasoline engine I am possitive we can figure out something.

Answer 7

30 years ago they said we only had enough oil for 30 years. We still have oil. We will have oil for fuel in 5 years but we need to start a serious move toward electric cars or when we do start to run low we will be caught off guard and the panic will be ugly.

Answer 8

Yes there will be gasoline left in 5 years. But if all fossil fuel goes away maybe that could reduce war. Wait, no humans would find another way to pollute the Earth and war.

Answer 9

I don't know. 30 years ago, the "experts" were saying that the gas would be gone in about 10 years.
They either found new gas sources or there's a lot they are simply not telling us.

Answer 10

jimmy carter said we only have 20 years of reserve left that was around 1976 now they are saying something like 30 years of reserve. i think if the world wasn't in such a mess where we get or oil we wouldn't even be looking for new energy sources.