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What do you think the world would be like if it ran out of oil?
Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:37 am
Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:37 am
The world uses oil to make so many things that's needed for everyday life. What would it be like if it ends up becoming a scarce commodity? Do you think wars would take place where countries would try to grab as much as they can to fuel their own country's interest? Do you think new technology and products would be developed that will effectively replace oil-based products?
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Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:38 am to Hammond Tiger Fan
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Do you think wars would take place
not sure if serious
Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:38 am to Hammond Tiger Fan
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Do you think wars would take place where countries would try to grab as much as they can to fuel their own country's interest
Umm...
Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:38 am to Hammond Tiger Fan
SJWs will find a different excuse for global warming
Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:39 am to Hammond Tiger Fan
Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:39 am to Hammond Tiger Fan
Since we can make synthetic oil and oil from coal. We can never really run out.
I'm sure whalers had these discussions before oil in the ground was discovered.
I'm sure whalers had these discussions before oil in the ground was discovered.
Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:41 am to Hammond Tiger Fan
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What do you think the world would be like if it ran out of oil?
a lot fewer truck nuts.
This post was edited on 10/10/17 at 8:43 am
Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:41 am to Hammond Tiger Fan
Total death. Everything has oil: The whole earth, every living thing. Squeeze a teenager's face and you get oil!
Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:42 am to Hammond Tiger Fan
Famine, disease, initially significantly greater pollution as coal would be strip mines and burned without abandon. The cost of everything would go up and China's economy would take a larger hit than a lot of countries as they Rely on exporting goods a lot more than some other places.
War would happen but without oil, you're looking at massive ground troops. There would be a shite ton of manual labor jobs back on the market, particularly in agriculture, but overall the quality of life for the average person would deteriorate considerably
War would happen but without oil, you're looking at massive ground troops. There would be a shite ton of manual labor jobs back on the market, particularly in agriculture, but overall the quality of life for the average person would deteriorate considerably
Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:43 am to Tigerbait337
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SJWs will find a different excuse for global warming
It would be all the nuclear fallout.
Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:47 am to Hammond Tiger Fan
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What would it be like if it ends up becoming a scarce commodity?
That would be bad, because then the sun would be doomed.
The rise of solar power would use up all the sun's rays and cause it to burn out faster.
Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:47 am to Hammond Tiger Fan
Al Gore will need to get creative
This post was edited on 10/10/17 at 9:25 am
Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:47 am to Hammond Tiger Fan
I got laughed at for posting a lot about peak oil on here a few years ago and I'll take my beating for now with energy prices in check and no real shortages in the world. But, if you think we're going to run the interstate highway system or mechanized agriculture/feed 7 billion people without oil, you're crazy. I just hope we can keep the lights on with coal/nat gas/nukes/whatever. There is lots of doomer porn out there.
Arithmetic, Population, and Energy.
The End of Suburbia.
Population, the Elephant in the Room.
Eating Fossil Fuels.
Peak Oil, Total Collapse, and the Road to the Olduvai.
Arithmetic, Population, and Energy.
The End of Suburbia.
Population, the Elephant in the Room.
Eating Fossil Fuels.
Peak Oil, Total Collapse, and the Road to the Olduvai.
This post was edited on 10/10/17 at 8:50 am
Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:55 am to Bunk Moreland
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But, if you think we're going to run the interstate highway system or mechanized agriculture/feed 7 billion people without oil, you're crazy.
Everybody should be growing food instead of manicured lawns.
It'd be an amazing thing to see and would have dramatic effects on the world.
This post was edited on 10/10/17 at 8:55 am
Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:56 am to Hammond Tiger Fan
Steampunk world!
Posted on 10/10/17 at 8:57 am to Hammond Tiger Fan
Everything would go solar.
Posted on 10/10/17 at 9:03 am to Hammond Tiger Fan
Less crap under country boy fingernails
Posted on 10/10/17 at 9:10 am to Hammond Tiger Fan
I'm assuming you mean "recoverable oil", since in every oil field, a large percentage of oil is left behind when the field is abandoned due to the rock and petrophysical properties not allowing 100% recovery factor.
Oil reserves (recoverable oil) are dependent on the oil price. If oil is $50/barrel, a company may have, say, 100 million barrels of reserves in its fields. If oil goes to $75/barrel, their reserves may now have increased to 200 million barrels, since the amount of oil that is economical to recover has increased due to an increase in oil price. The amount of oil in the rock hasn't changed, but the amount of recoverable reserves has.
If oil prices keep going up, then reserves will keep getting added. The world will never run out of oil.
Oil reserves (recoverable oil) are dependent on the oil price. If oil is $50/barrel, a company may have, say, 100 million barrels of reserves in its fields. If oil goes to $75/barrel, their reserves may now have increased to 200 million barrels, since the amount of oil that is economical to recover has increased due to an increase in oil price. The amount of oil in the rock hasn't changed, but the amount of recoverable reserves has.
If oil prices keep going up, then reserves will keep getting added. The world will never run out of oil.
Posted on 10/10/17 at 9:15 am to GetCocky11
Remember the good ole days when most people were subsistence farmers? Yeah.... the malnutrition, the disease, the one out of four kids who made it out of childhood alive, the average lifespan of 36. What a wonderful world it would be.
Posted on 10/10/17 at 9:20 am to tigahbruh
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Remember the good ole days when most people were subsistence farmers? Yeah.... the malnutrition, the disease, the one out of four kids who made it out of childhood alive, the average lifespan of 36. What a wonderful world it would be.
When did I say that people should go back to being subsistence farmers?
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