If you think that were gonna run out of oil soon its not actually the case. The state of Colorado alone is sitting on top of more oil than the entire Middle East. Well over a trillion barrels. Only problem is that it is in a form called oil shale, which is more difficult to extract. But now that oil prices are going up they are researching how to extract it and hopefully find a cheap way to do it. Too bad our politicians are too dumb to realize this.
Colorado seems like its about to become extremely rich. But it still doesn't matter, if we continue were going to continue polluting. Im not saying oil is evil, or that the industrys are. Its just that if we continue this the next 50 years could have some severe problems to deal with. And even with all the oild stuck under colorado, how long will it take until its used up? Theres about 500 million cars in this world. Theres 10's of thousands of aircraft, and ships. Thats a huge usage of fuel there.
In 2002 the amount used was that America leads the world in fuel usage (a whooping 10.4 million barrels per day) followed by Japan (5.3 million barrels per day) and then Germany [2.6 million barrels per day)
Thats just nuts. Those 3 countrys alone use 17.3 million barrels per day. Where does it all go (sorry if it seems like im bashing America on this, because its pretty the whole freakin' worlds fault anyway)
The point of this anyway is that hybrid cars are the way to go!