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I've been wondering, our gasoline and other fules come from fossile fules that were made thousands of years ago right? well then dont they have an end? here are my questions (besides the ones above)


1. How long do we have before Gasoline or any other fuel's are gone.

2. What happens when its gone...what do we use then?

3. Should we start worring about it now?
 
1) Environmentalists say 50 years tops. Sensible guesses are around 75-100 years. And that doesn't include exploiting the Antarctic oilfields.

b) Whatever technology is developed over the next 50-100 years.

iv) No.
 
scoobyonline200
I've been wondering, our gasoline and other fules come from fossile fules that were made thousands of years ago right? well then dont they have an end? here are my questions (besides the ones above)


1. How long do we have before Gasoline or any other fuel's are gone.

2. What happens when its gone...what do we use then?

3. Should we start worring about it now?
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1. 50-100 years

2. We use FuelCell technology. Already working technology that will only get better, and cheaper with time.

3. Yes
 
What a change of times it would be when that happens. Would the whole "Car" craze thing finish? or continue with the "New" technologies. By the way, are these any possible types of technologies to use.

> Solar Power --- Even though it needs much more improvement to replace the type of fuel currently used by cars...no?

> Nuclier --- Too Crazy or a possability

> Water Based Fuel -- Maybe the use of regular water can work.

> And like the guy above said....Hydrogen

> Sounds crazy but it would be cool, in my view, if they invented a way to make an engine use oxygen as fuel. And I mean in the way today's engines use Gasoline. ... or I may just be crazy in thinking that. :D tee hee.
 
The inherent problem is in creating the fuel – for example, creating hydrogen requires (surprise!) electricity, and we currently make a lot of electricity using fossil fuels. It all cycles back to fossil fuels, because alternatives (e.g., solar) aren't viable yet for mass usage (we use solar to power our entire house, but a house doesn't use as much power at one time as a 300-hp engine).

I wish I knew of the best solution, but I don't... my guess is that in the future, a completely different technology will be developed to cope with this (I have no hope for hydrogen fuel cells). I'll probably be dead by the time the world's oil supply is exhausted, especially when you consider how much the "deadline" has been bumped up in the past. I'll let someone smarter than me figure out the issues. :)
 
1. A while.
2. Some people go to alt. fuels, I'll see what happens but I won't give up gas Mazdas anytime soon.
3. If you want to worry.
 
:lol:

Today, I was watching I Robot. The movie takes place in 2035, and guess what the movie's cars all ran on? Hydrogen cells.. or.. fuel cells.. or something like that.

As well, one of the actors said "That doesn't run on gas does it? (Refering to a motorcycle) Gas EXPLODES!!!11!! ONE"

So to answer the questions..

1. After I'm dead.
2. Alternative fuels, or we can just link the world with one huge mass transit system and somehow generate electricity.
3. Yes we should worry because it will like the The Day After Tomorow! :gasp: hahaha. On a more serious note, yes, we should still worry. The effects are becoming quite clear. Recently, I visited Hong Kong for a 3 week vacation (I used to live in Hong Kong). I cannot even bear the heat in Hong Kong, and before I left, I used to say it was cold!
 
Im 20 now, and it might be something that will affect me I think...but it for sure will affect our grand kids.
 
scoobyonline200
I've been wondering, our gasoline and other fules come from fossile fules that were made thousands of years ago right? well then dont they have an end? here are my questions (besides the ones above)


1. How long do we have before Gasoline or any other fuel's are gone.

2. What happens when its gone...what do we use then?

3. Should we start worring about it now?
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1) With the Chinese starting to use huge amounts of oil - i think it will be within our lifetimes :(

2) We'll have even more wars over it and will eventully lead to a nuclear conflict, wiping out most of the worlds population - so it won't matter anyway.

3) We should have started worring about it 50 or 60 years ago, and done something about it when we had time!
 
1. January 2073.
2. Technology will develop something else because there is a necessity for it. It's worked the same way countless times in the past.
3. No. See #2.
 
1. Um...later?
2. When oil's gone, we can't make as many plastics, either. We'll probably come up with something to run cars (or whatever moves us) by then, though. I'd say that nuclear is actually a good idea. If we can get reactors small, efficient, and safe enough, then why not? As for hydrogen, we've got a limited supply of that, too. You gotta remember that hydrogen floats....right out of the atmosphere and off the earth. And if we start making it from water, it requires more energy to separate h2o than it produces when burning hydrogen with oxygen. And....we'll start running out of water, too. Then there's the idea of running off batteries (really, really good ones) and recharging using energy NOT produced by fossil fuel. That means nuclear, geothermal, solar, wind, hydroelectric, etc. I say we cover the moon in solar panels and build a really, really long extension cord ;)
3. It depends on how much faith you put in human ingeneuity.
 
halfracedrift
:lol:

Today, I was watching I Robot. The movie takes place in 2035, and guess what the movie's cars all ran on? Hydrogen cells.. or.. fuel cells.. or something like that.

As well, one of the actors said "That doesn't run on gas does it? (Refering to a motorcycle) Gas EXPLODES!!!11!! ONE"

So to answer the questions..

1. After I'm dead.
2. Alternative fuels, or we can just link the world with one huge mass transit system and somehow generate electricity.
3. Yes we should worry because it will like the The Day After Tomorow! :gasp: hahaha. On a more serious note, yes, we should still worry. The effects are becoming quite clear. Recently, I visited Hong Kong for a 3 week vacation (I used to live in Hong Kong). I cannot even bear the heat in Hong Kong, and before I left, I used to say it was cold!
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:dopey: I think you left in winter and visited in summer. :)
 
1: A pretty long time
2: Bicycles. Ever heard of them?
3: I'm worried enough to consider fuel economy in a car. A daily driver kind of car. (a.k.a not my Sunday ride)
 
Hiya! :D :O :lol: Meow! (='.'=)

Yea I can imagine 50 years at least like some says. :O I dont know wut makes me think of this kind of "fuel" replacement of mines, but I think we could use Air Pressure as our next fuel replacement...:O Its like..can we actually use Air to take up space, compact it in the engine and let the pressure somehow push itself to make the pistons move? Yea I dont really know much of how its going to work but its a though ! :O

Also, imagine all the cars that will be going into recycle/junk yard when the time gasoline is gone.... :odd:
 
You can run diesels on cooking oil with very little trouble, I think. So that could be an option, though I don't know what they are like for emissions.
 
Party for GT4
You can run diesels on cooking oil with very little trouble, I think. So that could be an option, though I don't know what they are like for emissions.
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Ive heard of this, I heard on a radio station that you can get the oil from French fries and run a diesel with it and that the only thing that would be bothering you would be that you'll smell french fries all the time, :) but yea Ive heard of that and I think thats cool. But why is it that the engine still runs with cooking oil?
 
Yeah that reminds me there was a show on TLC some time ago where they had to turn corn seeds into corn oil or something then make the oil run diesel-powered go-karts...
 
yeh, top gear did sumin with cooking oil, and sum spirits and what have u, to run a diesel volvo, that might solve some issues, not to mention the increasingly better performance of diesel engines, on top gear, i saw a Diesel Skoda fabia, beat a petrol run mini cooper S round the track, and also am i to understand a car in le mans is diesel engined car, if we can alternativly use this method instead of useing actual diesel fuel, could solve sum issues, possibly, im not sure if this wud work, does anyone kno if it does work?
anyway what i mean is, concentrate on diesel engine performance, so that in the future, it cud reach the point of petrol and diesel engines been similair in performance, i think we are beggining to see this now.

i just hope one day, we find a miracle fuel... of sumkind, but, sum alternate hydrogen vehicles available in the near future eases my worries over what sort of vehicle we cud be driving in our life time.
but what do i kno, not much in terms of fuel or engines, i leave it to the people who are supposed to sort this situation out.
 
Meglomaniac
on top gear, i saw a Diesel Skoda fabia, beat a petrol run mini cooper S round the track
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No. It was an ordinary Mini Cooper. No supercharger. Whereas the diesel Fabia was using a turbocharger. 1.6 NA vs 1.9TDi...? How very fair.
 
Probably cars will be running with fusion energy in the future... I mean like a thousand years from now. It's a good source of energy (mean fusion) but before we can use it with cars, we should be able to build fusion reactors. So it wil take a lot of time.

Meglomaniac
i just hope one day, we find a miracle fuel... of sumkind, but, sum alternate hydrogen vehicles available in the near future eases my worries over what sort of vehicle we cud be driving in our life time.
but what do i kno, not much in terms of fuel or engines, i leave it to the people who are supposed to sort this situation out.
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Read my signature :indiff: I could've quoted everything from your post, but that would have been uncool.
 
Skoda Fabia vRS 1.9TDi has 130hp. Mini Cooper 1.6i has 115hp.
 

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