Crude Awakening
Without oil we would be nowhere, because tires, tennis rackets, trash bags, toothpaste, crayons, parachutes, telephones, and even shoes are products of oil not to mention gasoline. But now the oil in the ground (crude oil) is running low and the prices are getting high.
According to U.S. scientists there is about 2.6 trillion barrels(which is 109,200,000,000,000 gallons) left in the ground. 1.7 of it is discovered oil or oil that has been found. Although, there are 900 billion barrels that has not been found. Furthermore, when half of the oil is found in one place the oil is harder to pump out, so the 2.6 trillion barrels is almost cut in half. After doing that math, Paul Roberts(the author of the book The End of Oil) says that in 2030 the world oil supply will peak and start to go way down.
Some Ideas to fix this problem are to drive gas/electric cars, installing the most efficient heating and cooling systems in buildings, and switch from oil to solar or wind to power things. We will never know when the world will run out of oil, but it is coming so we need to research ideas quickly.
