re: What do you think the world would be like if it ran out of oil?

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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?

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That's happened many times already. Surely you don't think the US launched Desert Storm to fight for the freedom of poor Kuwaitis?

And synthetic fuels have been around for a long time. Nazi Germany used it quite a bit but it's still around. Here is the wiki.