Oil-less earth.

Very nice thought. Then our lives also become slow. Majority of the wars had not happened between many countries if there is no oil. And we have to consume oil for our next generations.

Wow I never gave it thought to this extent, but I would hope it does not run out as I think then that is when the real world war and issues will rise. I do hope that it gets under control for good intentions.

Yeah it is a necessity alright... I thnk though toothat we can go back to the primitive ways when oil runs out. Walking instead of ridng... Bike intead of machine... Those sort of things...

I hope that by that time other systems have come about and we are able to find other things besides oil to use. Motor companies are getting on board with options on fuel and I am sure other areas are getting on board as well. It all takes time and I hope it happens quickly enough to set in motion something to take the place of oil in time.

Good topic Do you mean by "we", our country or our planet? If the country runs out of oil, that's easy... just start up a war with a country that has lots of oil & before long, hey - we have oil again! If you mean the planet, then we will just rely on other sources to produce our fuel & manufacturing base material from. There are many types of plastic that don't involve oil to be produced. We can travel right now without oil. We can heat our homes by much better, safer & more efficient means than by using oil. We can make our clothes without oil. The problem is that this is one of the cheapest energy sources that will give the biggest bang for your buck (next to coal). And that's not just by a small margin - it's a huge difference. All the processes & existing infrastructure have all been purpose built for using oil as a raw material. Anything new or different that we want to replace it with will invariably involve huge set-up costs as well as on-going costs & maintenance. It can be done, but it is inefficient & unattractive to most investors who will not want to wait for the next twenty five years just to break even on their outlay. Unfortunately, we will have to stick with oil for some time yet. . Alternative technologies only seem to be attracting saboteurs at the moment

I think it's interesting to see that oil exist at all. We find it deep below the ocean and deep in the ground. How did it get there? after all, it has organic origins. Thus I've often wondered if getting oil out of the ground could also be considered a good thing as oil contains the building blocks of life, i.e. it contains C, H, O. Burning oil or rather its derivatives produces a lot of CO2; obviously burning too much of it isn't good. But if we keep in mind that plants use CO2 to grow we could make a simple equation out of it: if we wouldn't deforest the planet and if we would perhaps decompose oil in a more clever way we could use oil to make the planet green again. Unfortunately the current situation is that the overall storage of CO2 in plants is continuously reduced by deforestation plus the oceans store a lot of the CO2 as well where it does more harm than good (it makes the seas acidic). So if we could slow down the process of oil consumption and accelerate the process of reafforestation this could perhaps save the planet and make it even more green than it was before because the oil had been sleeping in the ground so far where no plant could get hold of it (or rather the carbon that's inside of oil). Can we achieve this ? I think so if we use alternative energies such as sun, wind, water (but not nuclear) energy and if we plant many many trees in the world at the same time. Cheers!!

This is too big a question for a myLot discussion really! What I think will happen and what I think ought to happen if we start planning for it now are two totally different things! I think that people and governments will resist doing anything about it until it is far too late (it could be argued that it's already too late, but that's another discussion ....) and then the world will divide into the haves and the have nots. Those countries which have natural fossil fuels or the money to bully other countries into parting with them will be on one side, with those who don't and can't on the other. Of course, that's not so different to how natural resources are shared out already, but this time it will be a more violent separation. Fossil fuels will shoot up in value, and money makes mankind fight. Those who have not already are probably better prepared to continue to survive without. Those of us who rely utterly on fossil fuels and who are furiously refusing to see the elephant in the room will suffer their absence the most. At some point governments will need to step in, but telling the electorate that they cannot have is hardly a vote puller so they won't do so until it is forced to do so. For this reason, some of the dictatorships may actually suffer less than the democracies. Now is the time where communities can start building up skills and the resilience to cope with a power down situation. Nobody knows precisely what will happen or when, but it's pretty certain that it will and I personally find it very strange that so few people seem to be willing to consider alternative scenarios to the one where we continue our normal, incredibly resource intensive behaviours. Transitions Towns is a very interesting model of a community lead initiative to prepare for peak oil. They very much look at the positive aspects of life rather than the negatives, which I believe is much of their appeal.

I was born during a time when there was very little use of oil, so I know we can get by without it. We used coal or wood to heat our homes a businesses, we didn't have out own cars, we did our washing by hand and most other things by hand. The bottome line is that we can do this and get along just fine, but the world will really be different.

Hi Lore. Man has always been a survivor and ingenious in discovering ways to meet man's needs, like the solar energy for one. The lack of something will somehow trigger in man the creativity and imagination to come up with an alternative. I believe in the capacity and ingenuity of man to surpass any hurdle man encounters. Have a nice day ahead, Lore.

We cann't think a oil-less world.We must limit our usage for future by discovering new alternatives