Mega Disasters- Oil Apocalypse

If the classic post-apocalyptic movie Mad Max teaches us anything it's that we do NOT want to be around when the oil runs out. But if we continue at our current levels of dependence, utilizing fossil fuels for everything from growing corn to driving to our mailbox, that will indeed be our fate. The oil that runs our world won't last forever. The gap between supply and demand is ever-growing. Even without increasing our current rate of consumption we will empty the Earth's large but finite reservoirs in a relatively short time. Will alternative energy save us or is it already too late? What would happen to the world as we know it when our oil dependent industries come to a grinding halt? A worldwide depression is a certainty but a power struggle for the basic necessities of life would be complete chaos