Do you ever have a fear of oil supplies running out?

**homesteadmamma** · 01-10-2006, 02:30 PM

I often wonder just how long oil will last and if we will have to look at another way to heat our homes.

**jlxian** · 01-10-2006, 04:46 PM

It may not be in our lifetimes that the oil runs out, but it will eventually. Hopefully the powers that be will wise up and begin strong efforts to develop alternative energy sources sooner than later. If everyone conserved as much as we on this site do, it would help immensely.

And if politics and energy could be separated it would help.

**webjoba** · 01-10-2006, 04:48 PM

It sure will run out and probably sooner than we think, but long before that it will become too expensive to extract.

There are some great web sites about peak oil and what we could be doing to make changes.

It will change some lives dramatically. Too expensive to drive to work, too expensive to heat some of the McMansions they are now building.

Scary stuff!!!!

**kestrel91316** · 01-10-2006, 10:50 PM

It's not going to actually run out in our lifetimes, but it is going to get REALLY REALLY REALLY expensive.

Plan accordingly.

**forestdale** · 01-10-2006, 10:56 PM

Some people say peak oilw as reached in 2000 and we are now on the downside of peak production. This is from http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

"Oil will not just "run out" because all oil production follows a bell curve. This is true whether we're talking about an individual field, a country, or on the planet as a whole.

Oil is increasingly plentiful on the upslope of the bell curve, increasingly scarce and expensive on the down slope. The peak of the curve coincides with the point at which the endowment of oil has been 50 percent depleted. Once the peak is passed, oil production begins to go down while cost begins to go up.

In practical and considerably oversimplified terms, this means that if 2000 was the year of global Peak Oil, worldwide oil production in the year 2020 will be the same as it was in 1980. However, the world’s population in 2020 will be both much larger (approximately twice) and much more industrialized (oil-dependent) than it was in 1980. Consequently, worldwide demand for oil will outpace worldwide production of oil by a significant margin. As a result, the price will skyrocket, oil-dependant economies will crumble, and resource wars will explode."

It's sooner that we think.

**homesteadmamma** · 01-10-2006, 11:09 PM

I think it is going to be a lot sooner than we think too Rhonda. With more and more countries demanding more and more oil, how can it now.

I wonder what will be the new fuel in the future.

**SHOPGIRL** · 01-10-2006, 11:12 PM

There's also research on our overabundance of oil. I'll have to find that information and post it.

I'm not worried about it. Alternative energy sources have already been developed. They just aren't being used to their fullest.

**kestrel91316** · 01-11-2006, 01:34 AM

The best way to deal with the energy crunch as it stands right now is to CONSERVE. Contrary to what Unka Dick would have us believe, conservation DOES help. It helps the wallet of the person who uses less, and the decreased pressure on supply helps to lower everyone's energy costs. Conservation is a civic duty, IMHO.

Waste not, want not.

Discover the joys of insulation. Make your energy go farther in the first place.

**forestdale** · 01-11-2006, 01:41 AM

Gayle, I could not agree with you more. Conservation IS a civic duty.

**webjoba** · 01-11-2006, 10:49 AM

Right on Gayle......

**momof42003** · 01-11-2006, 10:21 PM

I never really thought about it... Kind of sad to think that, but I haven't until now... I do think that at some point oil production will stop.. I do believe too, that it is our civic duty to conserve, and create new and better ways to stop using so much... I will be thinking about this topic for some time to come. Thank you for asking...........