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will the world go to war?
do we really need oil to survive?
I was born 1992. I wouldn't remember any 1995 oil incident.
Any thoughts are welcome!

We would have to start using alternative energy and develop some sort of battery or fuel cell, like hydrogen, geothermal, wind, wave, more nuclear, fusion, etc..

War? Isn't that already going on... Iraq, Afghanistan (pipelines). I doubt it will get worse but maybe a little among unprepared countries. Nothing major among modern countries though, I expect.

...and that won't happen for a long time, people forget that Russia has an oil field larger than the arabian oil fields, they just got to get their but in gear and start drilling.

Running out of producible oil is not an issue, as it is a very long term process that you will notice well in advance by price increases. National longtime shortages due to economic embargoes and wartime restrictions on private fuel consumption have happened before: During WW II, supplies to Germany were so short that substitution of oil as fuel and as a petrochemical resource kicked-in. Cars, for example, were refitted with wood burners.

Short-term severe disruptions can cause a lot of havoc, and these happened on multiple occasions such as:
- the closure of the Suez canal in the 1950s
- the oil embargo in 1973
- national strikes in refineries or amongst tanker drivers (e.g. UK, early 2000s)

These were further enhanced by panic purchases. As a minimum you would expect traffic jams. But in some of these cases private traffic was banned, sometimes for weeks.

Hello....Carolina

I'm honored to discuss my ideas on this post.

I don't think that we can survive without oil because we have been addicted to it for long time, allowing go now would be unfortunate. While some might discover it undesirable, there is a still wide provide of untapped oil & we should consider going after it with all possible hurry.

I can't remember it,and I can't image what will happen when we run out of oil.