world without oil

[dannyday5821]

is there a website where it explains how i would survive in a world without oil? not a shortage of oil, i mean NO oil at all. Where it explains how my family of four could possibly survive without oil.

thanks!

i cant find anything on google other than books....

[wildwood]

Don't know of such a site but your world will only significantly change financially. All products derived from oil can also be made from different base materials, it has just been too expensive up to now.

The most obvious is fuel to run your car, this can be made from a myriad of different products. It is just a lot more expensive to produce. I caught the last bit on TV of a report on one fish'n'chip shop owner who ran his van on used cooking oil.
As oil becomes more expensive the alternatives are gaining popularity. Unfortunately it also means the underdeveloped countries are going to get even hungrier. Cereals are a very probably basic product for fuel manufacturing so the world price of this will become beyond the means of the poor.

[jno]

yes, as wildwood says, maize is already being turned over for use in fuel production instead of food, and indeed it is alreay putting terrible strain on the import budgets of poor countries that can't grow it already.

I look forward to the day when all cars have one of those nice wind turbines on the roof.

[jno]

http://www.newcolonist.com/world_without_oil.h tml

[code1]

Even Polylatic acids created from Maize have a multitude of bi-product problems.

[squarebear]

Unfortunately, that's just a holding page and has no information on it to do with the question.