Do not worry in the long term about running out of oil. We will have found better, safer, cleaner sources of energy way before then. Although the short-term could be messy if we entrust our energy to the oil conglomerates. Every single educated person of the non-poverty classes I believe has an obligation to be working toward their own energy sufficiency. For starters, how about in exchanging holiday presents this year, we all give, and ask for, energy reducers..as simple and cheap as a length of rope for a clothes line..or a single solar lantern for the yard..or a solar candle that you set in the sun and bring in at night to light your home....how about training our children to run around and get warm, and to wear sweaters, rather than overheating them at home or at school. I think only premature infants, the infirm elderly, and others with health problems need as much heat and air conditioning as we now consume...how about separating our garbage better and instead of having these unbelievable garbage dumps, with the inevitable epidemic caused by them at some point, burning the burnable garbage...there is a ton of stuff we can do and will do if prices of energy rise....but I think we are buying into an artificial scare about running out of oil...we have corncobs do we not????? And engineers who could run whatever remaining factories we have here on them, as well as cars, refrigerators etc.