Canada consumes about 2billion bbs/yr. You got a bit of a shortfall there buddy.
Yuppers. It's going to have to run out some day... and at current rates it will be withing a lot of our lifetimes.
Of course there's the tar-sands. Given the rate at which they want to ramp that up, it should last about 30 years, and will leave a scar visible from the moon... defeating the Great Wall of China for largest man-made "structure".
It's curious how nobody ever talks about the coal.
There's still a lot of that, and all the petro companies already have the plans in place to convert to that when the oil runs out.
I just wish they'd be thinking about how they'd burn it cleanly.
I knew a guy who invented a method for scrubbing the exhaust so you wouldn't get all that fine ash that makes the air around Chinese cities grey, causing everyone living in those cities to be constantly hacking up black phloem. Furthermore, the trapped ash could be pressed into bricks strong enough to be used for construction.
He spent six months trying to flog the idea in Canada, and finally got frustrated, so he went to LA, and in the cab from the airport got into a conversation with the cab driver about the idea.
The driver got excited, and the next day had a meeting set up with some of the driver's contacts, and in the hotel room they made a deal and he sold.
Then... nothing ever came of it. He was hoping it would be applied to cleaning up the air of Chinese cities, but it seems to have just vanished.
Weird.