Rather than annoy this GQ thread, I’ll put this here.
As oil production winds down and the last oil field gives up its last barrel, what do you think would become of it?
Would there be some sort of ceremony? Auction it off to the highest bidder? Put it in a museum?
I doubt very much that we’ll ever stop drilling for oil entirely, even if we do move to an economy that is so entirely oil-dependent. It’s simply got too many other uses. Even assuming that we do, eventually, reach a point where all oil production in the world is shut down, I suspect it will be such a gradual wind-down that by the time the last derrick goes offline, only historians, SCAdians, and the like will even remember how important the stuff used to be.
I meant “isn’t,” of course.
We’ll have to ask the owner of the last oil, when he shows up.
Maybe we could turn it into a nice plastic model of the internal combustion engine, or something.
