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Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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They said the same thing 10 years ago ... and 20 years ago ... and 30 years ago ... and, well, you get the picture.
We most likely wont run out of oil in 30 years, but the price for it will go up, since we will have to start using reserves which are more difficult, and hence more expensive, to extract.
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i_c_weiner
DOOP Secretary
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More environment based, unless you want to get oil from another country, then political. But if that country's oil is in an environment that is protected, than it's politically environmental...or environmentally political. I'm not sure.
Hydrogen power and solar power will replace gasoline pretty soon, I'd say in the next 10 years. But, like in Bendin' in the Wind, he found a car that ran on oil, so he used oil to power it. So, inturn, if people like their car enough, they'll go out and buy gasoline until it runs out, and then, we'll find a new source for the current cars that replace gasoline, even if we already have new cars running on better energy sources.
Or a better idea on power for cars, how about ones that run on polution or even garbage.
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futz
Liquid Emperor
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Actually it might be more like 2012 when the bite starts sinking in. The problem with anything hydrogen powered is that it takes more energy to produce it than a given amount contains. The same thing is starting to happen to oil. Trouble is the entire fueling infrastructure will have to be changed to hydrogen as well as the vehicles. Bio-fuels? There may not me enough land on the planet for fuel and food, raising the cost of both. No free lunch in sight.
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futz
Liquid Emperor
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A vow of poverty may be more appropriate when you see how much there gonna cost.
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futz
Liquid Emperor
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No, and stop calling me Shirley. There is a lot of oil left but it is very deep (think in miles down). Canada has lot of oil but it's in the form of tar sands. Saudi Arabia is using pressurized sea water to scavange oil from it's reserviors. Then you have to make it a usable product. All of which adds $$$$.
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Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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Waaay ahead of you, young Padawan.
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futz
Liquid Emperor
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Lots of things are possible. More a matter of oil prices rising to the point that the alternatives make economic sense. Then again the oil companies have a habit of raising prices while they can. Then just about when the alternatives look attractive they slash prices and pull the rug out from under competition for another 10 years.
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RectalExamBot
Crustacean
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The bigger concern with lack of oil isn't cars, but fertilizer. Our crops are really "grown" with oil. If oil runs out as Prof said, how do they feed themselves in the future? The population I'm sure is much bigger.
Only way I can think of? Cryonic Woman: "And everybody ate lasers"
But that just raises further questions!
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bending_unit666
Crustacean
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hover cars by 2038 would be great! but what would they run on instead?
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futz
Liquid Emperor
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A big chunk in the US goes down the drain in commuting to and from work. The average is getting up around an hour each way a day or about 25-50 miles each way for those who are actually moving. But companies are bound to their bricks-and-mortar rather than tele-commuting often because it's more about tribal rituals of management than production. Not that the current administration is promoting it either.
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bending_unit666
Crustacean
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Public transport is the answer! In britain, when i use it, it works preetty well! Although...you don't see much public transport in futurama do you?
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