They're discovering new oil reserves all the time. There's no danger of oil running out; it is merely uneconomic at the current rate. When the price goes up, the oil becomes economic to extract.
Petroleum isn't just used for fuel, but for plastics as well. Plastic is just about the most useful material ever invented. Light, strong, and most importantly cheap. You can say you'd like to live in a world without plastic, but everything you buy would become ruinously expensive and you'd be in poverty. Just look around the room you're in right now and start identifying all the things made of plastic. It would take you a half hour to list them all.
If you're already in poverty never mind. You'd just be in super-duper poverty, which isn't that different except you'd have only one wooden bowl and spoon, and you'd carve them yourself from a tree branch.
They're discovering new oil reserves all the time. There's no danger of oil running out; it is merely uneconomic at the current rate. When the price goes up, the oil becomes economic to extract.
Petroleum isn't just used for fuel, but for plastics as well. Plastic is just about the most useful material ever invented. Light, strong, and most importantly cheap. You can say you'd like to live in a world without plastic, but everything you buy would become ruinously expensive and you'd be in poverty. Just look around the room you're in right now and start identifying all the things made of plastic. It would take you a half hour to list them all.
If you're already in poverty never mind. You'd just be in super-duper poverty, which isn't that different except you'd have only one wooden bowl and spoon, and you'd carve them yourself from a tree branch.