What happens when we run out of oil?

>>7654191
Trump makes Mexico buy us more.

>>7654191
WW3

Social and economic chaos will ensure

We're too heavily dependent on it that a switch to alternative sources for fuel will take decades to happen

>>7654191
It won't be instantaneous. We won't even run out of oil: the price to extract it will just exceed the benefit. As this moment of "peak oil" gets closer and closer, the world economies and industries will have time to adapt. If they don't, bad shit happens. But don't worry, you can safely assume the world governments have contingency plans for peak oil.

We wont, the price of oil is causing a panic right now because there's too fucking much.

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>>7654191
forget oil,
what happens when we run out of water?

>>7654191
the singularity will happen before this does

>>7654191
Probably something in between finding a way to meet all our needs just as easily with alternative energy sources and Mad Max

>>7654244
Explain yourself.

>>7654245
the ayatollah of rockarollah

>"run out"
Never going to happen, it'll just get increasingly scarce and expensive to extract. Heightened prices will cause demand to fall and alternatives will enter the market (whether they be simply alternative extraction methods, or synthetic petroleum or perhaps an entirely different alt-fuel).

>>7654191
Fallout 4 (^:

We won't and if we did something would replace it.

>>7654191
We like oil because it is portable, energy dense and cheap. As it becomes less cheap alternatives that are less portable and less energy dense will be used like an ersatz good- this is already done in countries without access to oil e.g. India using natural gas powered cars. There is also the chance of some new major paradigm shift but that chance is itsy bitsy since we are so tied to our current transportation infrastructure.

>>7654191
We make more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolysis_of_water
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcination
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-gas_shift_reaction#Reverse_water-gas_shift
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_process

>>7654191
transportation will become more expensive because everything that's still depending on oil has to be replaced.
but there is a bigger problem here: we still can't produce plastic without oil. we're far more dependent on it as people might think. food production will also be heavily affected.
so in general we could say everything will get far more expensive. how much is entirely up to us. if we prepare ourselves well the damage will be lower

>>7654191
We reduce carbon dioxide back into methane with some future super-catalyst and hydrogen gas.

>>7654191
When won't really run out of oil. But if it somehow does happen, I guess everyone will be driving electric powered cars and bicycles every where. Driving an all electric vehicle is even more expensive than a diesel powered one might I add.

As stated above you're not going to run out of oil.

You have two scenarios:

A) With the encroaching obsolescence of oil government and businesses slowly shift to other resources. This is helped by the fact the only option aren't oil and renewable resources. You have a lot of still fucked up fuel sources able to be depleted while a transition to renewable resources and/or nuclear power.

B) Nobody sees the obvious coming despite oil prices skyrocketing for X amount of years and you somehow have a gradual global collapse of economies setting us back years.

It's either really good towards singularity or really bad for it.

>>7654191
Renewable sources of everything already exists. If we run out we will be forced to switch to them, but right now the oil industry is keeping us addicted by controlling the economy and gearing it towards oil use.

Bio plastics can be created from chitin, found in fungi and arthropod shells. Gasoline can be synthesized by microbes grown in a process similar to brewing beer. These options exist they're just not cost-effective right now.

>>7654280
Nothing to explain, read a fucking newspaper. Fracking in the US has caused the cost of oil per barrel to plummet, due to a significant increase in supply. It used to be $80+/barrel, now it's something like $40/barrel. This has caused a lot of oil producing areas to significantly cut back on their investments, meaning less money for regions that produce oil. Towns that depended solely on oil revenue are now lacking in previously high cash-flow.

>>7654191
>What happens when we run out of oil?
It's the year 2500 so we switch to portable fusion reactors.

>>7654515
We can produce plastic without oil.

>>7654245
>what happens when we run out of water?

We can't run out of water because the ways in which we use it doesn't destroy it. All water gets recycled.

>>7655227
only if it's some shit lactic acid bullshit
how you gonna get ethene without oil?
dumbass gonna catalytic crack some trees
how you gonna get propylene without oil?
how you gonna make styrene and any aromatics without oil? (easily)
spray cans will be fucked, roads too, candles, rubber, bananas,
we're basically fucked, the alternatives aren't worth it (not compared to oil, just in general)
should just switch to nuclear so a big chunk of it is saved but lol $$

>>7655621
>how you gonna get ethene without oil?
Um... that's pretty straightforward and there are multiple ways to make it from syngas?

It's not like we just refine it from oil. It's made by steam cracking. That's only slightly cheaper than making it from syngas, and mostly because of the installed based of equipment.

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>>7655261
>We can't run out of water

>>7654191
we'll never run out of oil, we'll continue to shift more and more to alternative oil sources.

20% of US gasoline already does NOT come from fossil fuels. Corn and corn waste products are currently the major contributor, but many other crops qualify.

even calling it "fossil fuel" is misleading, when it's mostly water, and there's no shortage of water on this planet.

>>7655630
>express yourself incompetently
>jump on people who object to your nonsense
Come on, don't be a retard on /sci/.

We can make bodies of water polluted, we can deplete groundwater. We can't dry out the oceans or stop fresh water falling from the sky and running over the land.

>>7654460
ayy lmao

>>7655621
Not him, but benzaldehyde is produced in great quantities by the bitter almond. (Append clandestine applications as needed.) Non-petroleum derived feedstocks are a big current topic in pharmaceutical discovery and process engineering.

>>7654245
what country is that?

>>7655211
The Synbio approach basically works by killing as many birds with one stone as possible i.e. using manufacturing byproducts (nuclear waste, CO2, wastewater) to produce fuel with self-extracting organisms.

We just haven't found that golden combo yet.

>>7654497
>We make more.
No doubt.

However when we run out of fossil oil and gas, which is probably what OP had in mind, a lot of things will happen. Basically the Middle East wil melt down into anarchy. Their economies will tank overnight. Massive revolutions. Attack on non-arab neighbours. Israel striking back. Major cities turning into green glowing ash sinking slowly into a glass sea of liquified sand.

Russian economy will plunge into darkness. South American economies will follow suit.

Basically interesting times.

>>7655261
we can run out of water if it all evaporates from the atmosphere into space