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I love how all the experts are fixated on energy. Only half of every barrel of oil is used for energy. The rest is used to make thousands of products that we depend on in our daily lives.

So the answer is: let's keep digging and find out!

Easy to access oil is becoming more difficult over time. Improvement in technology has still struggled to make most shale projects profitable with large cash injections from investors and government.

Excellent short video. Just going to give a presentation on the same subject, and this was extremely lucid.

It's a replanishing resource. The only thing we are running short with is integrity, honesty and dignity

Oil and Lithium need to learn to love each other because they would greatly benefit in helping each other in an ever expansive Earth. The problem, Corporations owning said energy sources. I want us American folk ( left or right) to at least, understand each other when it comes to energy production.

Thank youso much

If energy production can't keep up with demand AND at the same energy input, then the standard of living of the average person WILL drop. Keep your eyes open and watch it happen. Cheap money WILL help get 'difficult to get oil' out of the ground, but the cost of the extra energy input necessary to do it won't go away. It just expresses itself in the inflation of prices of ALL goods and services. So in the end, the scarcity of EASY energy Will be felt by the average person. They just won't realize the source of the pain. Rich people will be fine though.

I thought oil is abiotic oil through serpentation also methane so abundant❤️

When you get people asking the wrong, or *IRRELEVANT* questions you do not have to worry about the answers ...

Slightly off subject but isn't David Keith the same guy that spoke about weather modification, saying that we should use aluminium oxide but we will be passing the problem to our grandchildren

The only part of this perspective I disagree with is the use of the term "fossil Fuels." Oil is not derived from dinosaurs. I can prove this to anyone who would take the time to visit me in Wyoming. I can prove in real time how it is an impossibility that oil is actually a "fossil fuel." I think the terminology is possibly an argument of semantics as we have been inundated with this idea that our vehicles actually run on dino juice, however it's equally hilarious that we do not associate nearly every other item we use in our daily lives to this "phenomenon." Our iphones are not something we perceive as a product of dinosaurs, nor are our computers, shoes, cameras, speakers, appliances, trash cans, trash bags, food packaging, auto parts, musical instruments, paints and coatings, anything that comes in a spray or pump bottle, garden hoses, plumbing parts, etc. For the love of all that's good and reasonable, this planet demands nearly 100 million barrels a day! Were the dinosaurs living like the factory workers in China who assemble our iphones and ipads, jump out the window to free themselves through death, only to be caught by nets made with petroleum, then escorted back to their work station? In order for this "fossil fuel" hypothesis to be accurate, the conditions for those nasty reptiles might have made them so ill-tempered. A cow will consume 26 pounds of grass per day...now equate that ratio per pound to a brontosaurus which consumed 1150 lbs of plant matter daily...there is no possibilty that these creatures were piled upon each other so heavily as to leave oil 6,000 feet in the subterranean that would facilitate nearly 100 million barrels per day.

Is the Earth truly running dry of oil's embrace? A struggle for resources, a global rat race, In the depths of our planet, where black gold does hide, The question persists, as we reach far and wide. Beneath the Earth's crust, where time takes its toll, Lies the treasure we seek, the source of our goal, But as centuries pass, and technology soars, The truth about oil, we can't just ignore. The thirst for this fuel has driven us far, From drilling in deserts to the depths of the tar, Yet the Earth, in its wisdom, has limits, we find, For oil is finite, not endless, we're inclined. Fracking and drilling, we push the Earth's core, For the fuel we rely on, forever craving more, But what of the consequences, the price that we pay, For the struggle for oil, day by day? Environmental costs, a planet in strife, From spills in the ocean to the loss of wildlife, The Earth bears the scars of our relentless quest, To harness the power that oil does manifest. And in the realm of geopolitics, we see, Nations in conflict over oil's decree, A struggle for power, for control of the flow, As the world's dependence on black gold does grow. But in the midst of this struggle, there's hope to be found, As we seek renewable energy, new paths on the ground, For the Earth, though it's weary, still has much to give, If we learn to protect, and respect how we live. So, is the Earth running out of oil, we may ask, It's a question that lingers, a formidable task, But the answer lies not in the depths of the ground, But in our choices and actions, where solutions are found.

my personal view on this has always been that once it was realized the immense value that oil will have in regards to advanced polymers, 3d printing, carbon fiber and other breakthrough technologies, they didnt want to waste those resources on other market demands. the biggest example of this being jet fuel. if less oil is consumed over the next 30 years by pushing us to electric cars, that will mean a larger amount of reserves will be there for the future to continue to produce jet fuel. Basically its a very simple principle that because cars are going on the ground the heavy batteries dont matter as much. while in the air a petroleum based fuel will always be needed for its power to weight ratio. meaning that airplanes with electric motors and batteries will be possible, but theyll be slower because we cant produce high level thrust without chemical reactions from hydrocarbons. in a shorter term. rich people like private planes, so theyre going to make poor people switch to solar and electric cars so they can use all of the oil for their planes instead of wasting it on our cars. thats literally the main motivation for all of these polices. every wealthy and powerful person on this planet has a private jet, they fly in them daily and they are the most important part of their ability to control the world. they want to make sure theyll have ready access to that fuel for the next 200 years. so this is how theyre going to accomplish it.

3:18 You can’t just show a graph and say that it proves a correlation. I could probably find 50 more things that would graph in apparent relation to the price of oil. That doesn’t prove correlation. There could definitely be other factors.

I have no troubles coming up with something else, but you can't make me miserable when all you have to do is get it to me for an affordable price.

I have a better question, are fossile fuels actually fossils? Or is it the earths blood, where magma and carbon are constantly compressed in a layer due to tempuratures, pressures, and the constant flow of tectonic plates... in a region that basicly allows the plates to slide smoothly, and one of the reasons we have more earth quakes is because we are removing this natural lubracant. When someone finds a pocket of oil on the surface, its only due to the fact that it slowly bubbled up to the surface, likely due to geographic qualities. Its natural, and stable, due to millions if not billions of years of geological tectonic flows, and magma flows. It has absolutly nothing to do with animal bones.

Why I favor hydrogen as a basic fuel. Hydrogen can be produced from any hydrocarbon, either fossil fuel or biorenewable. It can also be produced from any source of electricity, just add water and electrolysis it. This makes fuel substitution versatile,efficient, practical, and economical.

Well thats good & all, useful information that doesent actually answering the question. At the rate we are using it we will run out around 2060, We do have more efficient clean energy tech today like: thermal & hydro & solar etc, if we get some powerplants working by then we should be good by then

is this college hardwarr im only in sekond grad help

not a fossil fuel..he is $ driven..oil is oil not a fossil fuel

Probably the big problem is that this is a finite resource that takes millions of years to make with a multitude of other resources needed. Because of this, we then have to look at how much oil we're digging up which is far greater than what the earth will ever be able to replenish. This means we could very well see the end of oil as a useable resource within our own lifetime if we continue the path we're on, especially when all oil reserves we're able to access dry up.

You are wrong about it running out, it is generated by earths core not fossils.

Why do you ignore abiotic fuel proofs?

You can NOT begin to talk about the origins of oil and its availability without FIRST talking about the fact that oil is NOT a FOSSIL FUEL. THAT has to be the initial conversation.

We must be running out because the govts are telling us to be better to the enviroment but they have military around the world which use large amounts of oil. Also they want us to transition to electric but electric still uses nuclear coal or other ways to provide energy which aren't clean for the enviroment. Its karma because we have been greedy and oil isn't renewable.

It's not "fossil".

Ain't no fossil fuel come on now let's start with the olivine rock at the plates and move on from there❤️

Oil isn't a 'fossil' fuel, its a mineral!!

There is nothing that can compare to the incredible power of oil .. gas comes a distant 2nd and then coal .. and when oil starts to go there is no way in your wildest dreams that the other two can be mined and converted into the humongous current oil demand plus their current uses.. so Hubbert is correct I’m sorry to say because when oil goes which it is starting to go now so does our population level.

Oil is not a fossil fuel. It’s a naturally occurring mineral.

Sure we got plenty of oil at 30,000 dollars a barrel. Plenty. We also got plenty of diamonds. Why not just make a huge oil squeezer. Just collect some dirt and squeeze the oil right out of there! Plenty I tell ya!

Political considerations seam to be the biggest hinderance to both exploration,production and now the use of the resources itself. Misinformation on Co2 and Climate change are now the biggest hinderance for sure.

Thank you very much for the explaination!

A / No we will not , because , there is no such thing as Fossil Fuel , no fossil ever having been found at 20,000 feet and deeper where oil is found . B / No we will not , because oil , wrongly named as fossil fuel is more abundant now than ever .

Its not even made out of fossils or dead plants

THEY ARE NOT FOSSILL FUELS- YOU HAVE BEEN LIED TO- PEACE

Oil is abiotic! No we will never run out of oil And its not FOSSIL!!!

No and they aren't fossil fuels.

As a non scientist I found this presentation very interesting. It was clear and easy to understand. Thankyou. 🇦🇺

SMH.

Peak oil is BS

Oil is not a fossil fuel

No because fossil fuel is the 2º more abundance liquid on earth

Oil is not a fossil fuel it’s replenishes itself faster than we use it

Year by year increasing world demand for oil is left out of his equation......

Only an idiot believes that a dinosaur turned into a barrel of oil.

NEVER! We are a carbon hydrogen planet. It you want the best data read Thomas Gold the Deep Hot Biosphere. That's for asking the great question. Kaw🎉

🤦🏻Harvard what are you doing… the answer is yes, dude talked about tar sands as if they are endless… we know how much there is, he talked about power plants using different fuels, all those fossil fuels run out… wow… I have no idea how “Harvard” missed the mark lime this At the very end is all that matters we got about 100-200 years and this is accounting for every single fossil fuel

Oil doesn't come from fossils

I think oil is like timber, a renewable resource that replenishes itself. I also think it doesnt take nearly as long as we are led to believe.

Imagine going to Harvard & being taught LIES to repeat while thinking your actually getting a fact based education.

Yes we will run out but not in our lifetime or our children's lifetime

Dang, I was hoping we would run out of fossil fuels so renewable alternatives become the norm... Poor earth :/

Could the reason why the inner core is growing be that it gets more space to grow, because humans have been pumping oil and Gas in millions and millions of cubic meters up from the subsoil now for almost 200 years. Since the year 1846 and the earth is warming up from within and the ocean is warming up because of just this? when oil and gas are removed by humans, when it happens the world inner core has room to grow more, and the world's oceans get warmer.