Wise man once said you can't get away from it there's oil in damn near everything. Even if every vehicle were to theoretically run on "nothing", so to speak, oil goes into making every part on that car, windmill and solar panel. lol,(reply>), @After_Midnight Beliefs are not facts, I worked in oil and gas construction for decades and I can tell you it is getting harder and harder to mine, deeper in more remote locations at much greater cost. All the easy oil is a goon. And we may not run out for a while, BUT not too far in the future there wont be enough to go around, Bit shortages! Resource wars, just look at what happening at the moment, with Russia, now imagine if a big supplier actually runs dry!,(reply>), @Steve Taylor I believe there's plenty of oil left in the crust, we'll ruin the planet with trash and overheat long before we'll come anywhere close to running out of it. If it's renewing in the mantle, that much less to worry about.,(reply>), Yes oil is really good for making thing (not perfect but really handy) and we should save all that oil for making things, NOT burning 80 million barrels every day!!!!,(reply>), Oil as a non energy source is a great discovery for mankind. Thousands of different kinds of products are based on oil or its derivatives. Food, medicine, light and heavy industry - countless products use it directly or indirectly. But when it comes to oil being used as a fuel, the story changes right there.,(reply>), @HealingBlight Every single item you own  or will ever own is made of - or made with oil....  How sustainable is this?  From the little research I've done.... It's not a matter of quantity - it's a matter of accessibility - future technology and economical feasibility. ..... And THAT'S the root of ALL problems in modern day society - money. <br><br>Money is obsolete as far as I'm concerned. <br>We need a resource based way of going about things. We need technology - not money. If solving a problem doesn't make money - the problem will NEVER get solved. <br><br>If money did not exist - We would have colonized the entire galaxy by now. We would be traveling to the Andromeda Galaxy - with FTL ( faster than light ) warp drives.... We would be having hot monkey sex with green bitches and....and ...and ...and ...and ... fucking filthy hillbillies from a planet near Mars ... <br><br>I'm sorry..... too much vodka - I think you get  the idea....