What Will the World be Like When Oil Runs Out?

What do you people think the political, social and economic repurcussions would be should the world be almost void of oil?

Wait, so there is no oil, or just an extreme lack of, like only one country has the last source of oil? If this is not the case, then renewable resources will become king, and those who have the most solar panels, windmills, and dams won't be as badly hurt as third-world countries, or even first-world countries that heavily depend on oil. In such countries, a so-called "Return to the Dark Ages" will occur, with mass anarchy and riots breaking out. But that is just my opinion.

I think we will have invented fusion power before oil runs out and also vehicles will be using hydrogen as fuel in few sort years. There are already cars that use it, but they aren't sold to the masses yet. Top gear made a episode about one BTW

Don't worry we always have blue minerals patches and vespyne gas geysers.

Humanity will persevere and find a new source of energy.

Isn't hydrogen I dunno.... Highly explosive?

America has enough oil to last 100 years. We are already having alot of progress on clean energy so I by the time we sort of " master " that technology we will have alot of oil left.

no if its compressed hydrogen or some shit

Factoring in increased consumption?

Probably about 50-60 years. 100 tops but that's optimistic in my opinion.

Fallout happens.

We shall replace it with Citrus.

All machines must be powered with blood!

Blood! Blood for... my Honda?!

The world isn't running out of oil any time soon. What will happen is that we will run out of oil that is easily accessible. For instance, there is a massive abundance of oil under the Pacific Ocean that would probably last the entire Earth for at least another century. Unfortunately, it's so expensive to drill for that oil, that one gallon of gasoline would cost an immense amount.

I'm telling you guys, citrus is the future...

If the world runs out of oil, you guessed it,














Kaiserreich happens.

Damnit, you stole my post.

Correction when the world runs out of citrus, Kaiserreich happens.

No, no, no,, no, no....no. For modern situations past 2000, the answer is Fallout happens.