Rod Speed wrote
Scott Lurndal wrote
Bob F wrote
wrote

It will probably never run out, until we do.

Right. Humans will be cooked off the planet long before we can get it
all out.

Quite literally as it happens.

Fantasy.
At the historic 2.3% annual petroleum usage increase rate, in 400 years
the waste-heat alone will raise the
surface temperature of the earth to 100 C (212 F). Simple arithmetic
(exponential growth) and physics.

Mindlessly silly fantasy, actually. We didn’t get anything
even remotely like that result when we moved to petroleum
use from feeding horses instead. Or with electricity
generation instead of feeding horses and bullocks either.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/g...-scale-energy/

But we have about 40 years of proven reserves at the current rate of use
(and given the 2.3% increase in usage, it's more likely to be much less
than that).

And long before that 40 years arrives, the costs of extraction will
balloon, and the costs to the consumer will be huge due to scarcity.

Fools have been claiming that for half a century now.

If we wait that long to prepare alternatives,

We did that half a century ago, nukes.
we won't have enough energy to both support current needs and to prepare
for the future (the energy trap).

Mindless bull****.
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/10/the-energy-trap/

More mindless bull****.