I see people saying "oil is running out" quite a lot, and i understand its a finite resource, but is it REALLY going to run out anytime soon??
Has anyone done a theoretical maximum calculation based on the history of earth? Surely it if took 2 billion years to form there must be loads of it left.
Maybe theres sufficiently large quantities that we could never hope to get anywhere near using it all without destroying our environment?
In which case, IF we can figure out how to use it without damaging the environment we have a very cheap large source of energy that we'd be crazy not to use.


