What about your Vehicle (Car or Bike or SUV) Once The Petrol/Gas Is Finished?

Hello Sid, I have two bicycles at home, and I think I can make use of it. Moreover cycling is a good exercise for everybody. I hope new inventions will come and we will get alternative for these.

Boy, that's a tough one. I'm not really sure what I'm gonna do when the supply of petrol runs out. I just hope car manufacturers come up with vehicles that do not run on petrol. They have electric cars now but I don't think they're mass produced already. Bioethanol is also being used by mixing it with petrol. I hope 20 years from now, cars would be running on pure bioethanol fuel. And I hope they could convert the engines of our present vehicles to run on ethanol or electricity. 20 years, right? Well, I don't think the cars I own now would last for 20 years so before that event takes place, I would've sold my cars and bought an electric car.

Good point..with all the talk about "Peak Oil" having been reached,and economies like that of China gearing up to enter the world marketplace with their car industry's products,hopefully at least some of this industry's output will be able to run on alternative fuels,or at least be able to be converted to run on them..The question for now is how long are we going to be able to afford petroleum based fuels once production starts to taper off? Will we stop being able to buy fuel before the Transport industry gives up on the ICE? If the crisis is going to be 20 years down the line,my current car is unlikely to be still around at that time...My previous car was used when I got it,and it was scrapped at around 10 years old..

My brain keeps telling me that the Petrol/Gas will never end. Although all the hype somehow I find it to be impossible. However there is a saying that says all good things come to end at some point so I will look at my ole trusting legs to get me from point A to point B.

Hello my dear friend! Nowadays, most people don't keep their cars longer than 5 years because of the maintenance cost. The older the car is the higher the maintenance cost is. So what they do is to trade-in their cars every 5 years or so in exchange for a new one. Car companies started manufacturing hybrid cars in anticipation that oil fuel will no longer be available in the future. So with this, i believe that the car companies would allow trading in of old model cars for the hybrid ones in the future and they can just recycle the old ones and turn them into hybrid cars. I would be doing the same with my cars in the future if oil fuel is no longer available.

Hello Sids! You made me think,lol! Good thing we don't have a car now,well,we have one before but we sold it since my hubby is always not around and the car is just in the garage,lol! I don't know how to drive so there's no use for it. We just borrow our relative's car whenever hubby comes home. So more or less,if we still have it,I'll just put some stuffs inside the car to make use of its space,lol! And make the car just a collection and make it an antique! As of now,I'm enjoying my bike and that is also my way for exercising. See yah friend!

Most cars these days are manufactured to be recycled, so if fuel did run dry then we would see many of the parts in cars being used in the manufacture of other things. However, they are finding alternatives to oil-based fuels and I feel that it will be available sooner than we thing. _Derek

Good mornign, theSids, I have already jumped in on this discussion, and you can tell I am in love with my E-bike...and I could fill pages with the reasons why! We have single focused on transportation regarding decline in fuel production, but looking around the average household, and finding the base of so many of the products in it, just a few; carpets, any form of plastics, wall board, panelling, lotions, and on and on..are petroleum based! The list is never ending! I own two vehicles (4 wheel) one a 1979 Grand Marquis, which I am restoring..and a 1985 F250 work truck, that I use for hauling around my tiling/landscaping equipment, once the equipment is at the work site...I travel back and forth with my E-bike! I keep the older truck, as there is fewer electronics on it, and quite often I am able to analyze and repair myself....y'know, back to the basics! I keep it properly tuned up and fully maintained, to reduce as many emissions as I can! I find it interesting that people are convinced that newer vehicles are more recyclable....We have scrap metal people coming to this Island once a week, removing metal and automobiles...and twice they have stopped at my property asking if I would like/car truck removed, and they would pay me for it...YUP, pay me..as the quality of the metal in the vehicles is far superior to today's with far less processing (& disposing of plastic--seperating materials)! So you see, there is value in us vintages and classics...LOL! Cheers!

Part of me cannot wait for the day when there are no More cars on the road. Just imagine how peaceful it would be. My head tells me that having hot used to mass personal transportation we are not going to easily lose it though. I own a hybrid car and my "smug" factor is high. Old petrol/diesel vehicles will be turned into razor blades! Although modern cars are increasingly recyclable. What they cannot recycle they will no doubt dump in the sea and cause mass ocean pollution instead!

Hopefully before the 20 yrs have passed they would have came up with another fuel type. Maybe then they will all stop fighting (wars) about the resorces that are about to be depleted. Im in denver, colorado somebody here has actually converted his auto so it runs off a fuel make from old oil the resturants are throwing out. Im sure there is plenty of that around. Also there is solar power that the electric companies dont want us to use.

I have thought of that too. It is a scary thought actually. I don't know what will come of all the vehicles that are on the roads now. I have actully considered tryong to get one of the battery powered cars but I have wanted to wait until they have perfected them more. Speed, miles per charge, stuff like that. They are very expensive though and it may be a while before I can get one.

hello dear, After 20 years,i guess my car is good enough to retire after 20 years (hehe) We never knew what will gonna happen after 20 years,maybe inventions will come,like cars running without the use of petrol. I wish Aladdin will come up with his flying carpet that doesn't need any petrol . i couldn't imagine what will happen to the world without transportation. Have a great weekend dear

Hello thesids, I have read 50 years, because some petroleum resources are too expensive to be used today but will be in the future. Many solutions exist but are not used because they are not very practical : by example, during the second World War, no petrol was available for non military cars in my country, so people installed gasogen engines on their motor, working with wood or coal : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasogene_engine Electric motors are already working. They have too few autonomy today -- about 100 kms --, but it can change with better batteries... Hydrogen motors are already working, the problem is the heavy cost of liquid hydrogen, but life gives a good link in box #1 to a new method of production. So we have not to worry about the end of petrol. Personally a witch broom or a flying carpet would be my preferred vehicles .

Hi sid I guess then bicycles rate will be hike for sure.. And as residents rates are more increasing i am sure people will use their car to stay.. I mean it can be use as an extra room.

I wish that it were possible to find an alternate fuel for these vehicles. Like you say, it is just a matter of time before the fossil fuels run out. I think that maybe by the time oil runs out, we may be smart enough to find an alternative fuel so that these vehicles can keep running. It might mean retrofitting the vehicles so that they can run on the alternate fuel, but I think it would be worth it. I don't own a vehicle at this time, but chances are that I will purchase a cheap car for transportation. Thanks for bringing this up.

Actually, were we legally able to drill on land as we used to, we'd have all the oil we needed. The artificial circumstance currently have--mostly using Mid-East oil, banning off-shore drilling & not allowing new refineries to be constructed--are what keeps oil so overpriced & precious. Drill here, drill now. Drill baby drill! Maggiepie “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep & bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” ~ Thomas Jefferson

Hello thesids, I wonder how did this question came to you? You worry for something that might happen in the far future. Do you know if we will live until then? Now, seriously speaking, I wouldn't worry about this matter. Electrical cars were produced but they are not so much promoted, as there are too many interests related to oil. If our old cars won't be good any more, recycling their components will be the best solution for them. But I think we will have the possibility to change their oil engines with electrical ones. But will you still want to ride your car then? Imagine mine will be a 25 years old car!

Good evening friend.. Nothing will be depends on other.If one goes means other will surely comes. In older days we used to go in bullock carts then some one introduced cycle and then bike, cars etc. Nowadays solar cycles and bi-cycles are also came..

I say keep it with the 3 R's, Reduce, Re-use, Recycle eheheh. There will certainly be alternatives, and the materials can be altered and modifyed to suit the new needs.

Hi....After the recession started and oil prices skyrocketed to $150, many companies all over the world has started either fuel efficient or hybrid electric vehicles. So may be if we are becoming more aware, we can solve this problem.