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What will happen when we run out of oil 13 Articles

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    by Jacqueline Homan

    Centralia, Pennsylvania: Our Largest Deposit of Back-Up Fuel Up In Smoke, Thanks To Government Ineptitude and Corporate Greed Centralia was a coal mining town nestled in the southern region of Pennsylvania's Columbia Co...read more

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    by Wanda Hartmann

    Recently, I have followed both the petrochemical and biofuel evolving debate in the Chicago region. As a chemist and concerned citizen I have attended lectures on biofuel by leading researchers and toured petroleum refine...read more

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    by Kevin Puszert

    The price of oil is going up because we are running out. We do not have the ability to shift enough resources into alternative fuels before our infrastructure starts to collapse. At that point, based on the precedent of ...read more

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    by Aquamarinegreen

    I think laser nuclear fusion is the answer. A British-lead team of scientists has just won support from the EU to construct an experimental nuclear fusion reactor - which could make nuclear fusion energy a commercial reali...read more

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    by gemini girl

    By the year 2080, the world's supply of oil will be in steep decline. It is not likely that petroleum supplies will run out any time in the near future, but the oil reserves that are still economically viable to recover w...read more

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    by William Remski

    Some time soon, in the next thirty to fifty years, the earth will run low on petroleum. In the years leading up to this time, the price of oil will rise. As the demand for oil grows, the price of oil will rise even highe...read more

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    by Jimmy Ettele

    Take a moment if you will and page back in the Rolodex of your mind to the cinematic experience known as 'Waterworld'. In a post-apocalyptic future, we found the world almost completely under water, a veritable waterworld...read more

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    by Angelique Ackers

    What are we going to do when we run out of oil? The by products of oil made world wide is not always made up of fossil fuels, this is what has been carrying the world on for centuries, these fuels I believe are diminishing...read more

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    by Raymond Gilford

    Oil as a Conpiracy Growing up I learned that a UFO landed at Roswell, NM, Oswald killed Kennedy, We went to the moon, and oil is an organic compound produced from the remains of dead things that lived millions of years ...read more

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    by William Hamilton

    We will run out of oil eventually, and we have to be prepared, unless the Russian theory is correct, which is that oil doesn't come from dinosaurs, but it comes from a process in the Earth's crust, and the elements that ha...read more

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    by Guy on the Internet

    Here are some things that may happen when we run out of oil: 1. We will be forced to use renewable energy sources to satisfy our energy needs. This will be an obstacle turned into an opportunity. There are many ways to ...read more

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    by blackbeanaddict

    The likeliest event is that the Major Corporations that control the oil industry will have something like hydrogen powered fuel cells to operate machinery and vehicles with. The mileage will be better but won't come close ...read more

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    by Ronald Schoderboeck

    Now this times goverments of many states want to control every resources they can reach.(Fight against the selfmade terror to and fro) there is no difference between USA, Russia, China, India and EU. All they want is oil ...read more

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