The end of fossil fuels is coming. The raw materials are reaching the end.

Fossil fuels have no future. This can be attribute to the continuously rising prices over the last 30 years. The fossil fuel power supply does not offer a long-term perspective. We must leave oil before it leaves said Fatih Birol, IEA, in interview Frontal21 at August 2010. Franz Alt supported this statement in a sunny outlook, 2008. The most concise resource we have is not oil or coal, but the time to replace oil and coal with renewable energy. As well Dennis Meadows U.S. economist, in an interview in Stern magazine, November2011 "The energy crisis will come." According to a study the Global energy consumption is expected to double by 2030. Half of the energy demand in 2030 will come from developing countries. 7 billion people will have energy and their goal is to provide a standard of living like the U.S. or according to European standards. The developments of recent decades has catapulted hundreds of millions of people in the industrial age and raised their standard of living massively. But billions of people still live with a much lower level of wealth, as Europeans or Americans. If all people on earth seeking the same level of wealth as Europeans, we would need 3 planets, at a level of wealth at the height of the Americans it would be 5 planets. The question of the future will be: How should this hunger for energy will be covered? "There are no adequate oil supply for a fully comprehensive growth of our economy or the global economy." Don Evans, U.S. Secretary of Commerce to 2005. "The inability to expand the oil production in line with increasing demand, will result in the future at a severe economic shock." James R. Schlesinger: Former U.S. Department of Energy and Defense. Growing welfare and increased population will drive the demand for energy in the coming decades unavoidable upward. We can not continue to rely on unreliable energy use, which cause environmental pollution. IEA economist Fatih Birol, November 2011. With fossil fuels does not in this case. Because the raw materials do not last long enough. Accurate information is hardly difficult to say how long the quantity is sufficient. Oil is not abruptly empty from today to tomorrow, but the production is approaching a critical point of geological, technical, political and economic conditions, which can be summarized in one sentence: The maximum flow rate (peak oil) will be reached worldwide soon or maybe it is already. At the moment nobody can say it correctly. New techniques, new oil fields, dwindling reserves all play a role in the calculation. "In the search for and exploitation of the last reservoirs the technical problems are also increasing."Why take these risks?" It is quite simply that all the rich, exploitable conventional oil fields have already discovered. So the search is increasingly difficult. It's like, battleships': First, you will always meet the large tankers. Until you have all the small U-boats, it takesmuch longer. " said Geologist Professor Klaus Bitzer 2010. Joerg Feddern, an oil expert at Greenpeace, January 2011 has the same opinion. The accident in the Gulf of Mexico has shown that the oil industry has reached the limits of the technically manageable. But e.g. America in the seventies already exceeded its maximum flow rate and decrease is strong at the moment. Britain achieved this at the new millennium. The supply rate of oil is not keeping up with the consumption rate. The OPEC president and Venezuelan energy minister, said in 2003: "The world should prepare for a possible energy crisis" But the Problem is not a new one. J. Howard Pew, president of Sun Oil, in 1925, said: "Again and again, since I was a kid, there was much uproar caused by the prediction of a coming shortage of oil, and again, production in the following years grew even further than ever before."

The Abiotic Theory

Of course there are other theories, the oil and gas are not finite. The abiotic theory suggests oil is reproduced or comes from the Earth's interior. Professor Vladimir Porfir'yev 1956 announced the following response theory: "Crude oil and natural petroleum gas have no intrinsic connection with biological substances that occur near the surface they are primitive substances, which broke out from great depths.". Leading chemistry experts examine this theory yet, such as Chemistry Nobel Prize winner Dudley Herschbach. Then that would be completely wrong what the oil companies, geologists, scientists and the media tell, the oil had a fossil origin and has evolved only one time in the Earth history 500 million years ago. In fact, this biotic theory was never proven, but it was untested and learned over the last hundred years and accepted as correct. It is a complete mistake, or in reality, a deliberately placed misinformation. Said Professor Vladimir Kutcherov, University Stockholm 2010. Kutcherov continues: It is therefore not a so-called "peak oil". This is also a myth that was invented by the oil companies and use by many scaremonger to announce the imminent end of the oil age. The motive of the oil companies is in fact create the impression that it would be rare and precious, and so expensive. But it is available in abundance and could be cheap. That would be very bad for business. The same game is also on the diamond. These are plentiful, but are kept artificially short in order to achieve a high price. But even if this theory is correct. The problem of capacity is the same. The problem is that the oil must be regenerate as fast as we consume it. 87 million barrels (159l barrels) have to be replaced every day. Why do we need so much oil? We use oil to produce fertilizer, plastic toys and shopping bags, medicines, paints and coatings, insulation for electrical cables and of course to drive our cars as well as to withstand the winter with oil heating systems . We need oil for almost all activities of our industrialized life: Mobility obviously needs oil, food needs oil, to bring up it first by fertilizers and pesticides and after that to bring it the supermarket. Most consumer products are not produced without plastic, if only for the compulsory packaging Oil is in many ways the (technical) lubricant of our economy. Without oil no wheel will turn."In 1859 the human race discovered a huge treasure chest in its basement. This was oil and gas, a fantastically cheap and easily available source of energy. We did, or at least some of us did, what anybody does who discovers a treasure in the basement live it up, and we have been spending this treasure with great enjoyment" said Kenneth E.Boulding (1978).So we will force the peak oil situation, to consider our way of economic activity from new perspectives. In the center of every discussion of energy, which is not limited to the technical, must now be on the question, how a society could look like, which requires less energy and above all: without energy, which is as cheap as we knew in the 20th Century. reported Marcel Hnggi, in the end the oil age as an opportunity, 2011. The Catholic bishops of Germany in: The Creation committed, May 2011says The energy supply is one of the biggest challenges for the development of human civilization. The overuse of scarce fossil and nuclear energy resources and the menancing climate change, violating the global, intergenerational and environmental justice today. On the one hand we have organized and structure the economic that we are (more) independent of fossil fuels such as oil. Renewable resources, decentralized energy systems can be the first evidence for this. On the other hand, we must adjust our thinking even to these developments: We must learn to think in networks. Peak Oil does not only affect the oil market by rising prices, but it also

affects the prices of other markets, where oil is a production component or supply (e.g. the car market, the energy market, the grocery store, transport market). But not only rising prices are a problem, the basic availability of products will be a problem therefore the availability of all products based on oil. And what is true of the raw material oil, almost all other raw materials as well and it make sense to become not dependent on raw materials, which in the foreseeable future will no longer be available. For this we need to find answers, on the one hand theoretical nature, on the other hand, quite specifically to the practical, everyday activities may be used. Our economy and our society to reconsider that is the challenge of the 21st Century. But our situation is not as desperate as it seems at first look, at least not if we act fast. Because there are already enough alternatives to fossil fuels: Solar energy, geothermal energy, wind energy and biomass, to name just a few. We could even change the energy sources available to get some oil for chemistry, medicine, etc. to be desired, because oil is too valuable to be only burned. We have the possibility of energy saving, now we could easily reduce our demand by half, without hard changes in our lifestyle. It would be brave to cover our energy needs by renewable energy sources by 30 or 50 percent until the year. We have known for some time that the conversion can be accomplished in renewable energy sources within a decade to fully cover the needs of any location in the industrialized society. When you know that ... , Then the delay of the energy giants seem to like dancing on a suicide party. discussed Peter Sloterdijk, philosopher, in an interview WAZ, April 2011 Robert Hirsch reported in: "Out of Oil American Strategies and policies for the period after Oil. The character of the peak oil problem is similar to the killer-asteroid problem. We really need to start right away with farreaching action, because we are running out of time. It will take a lot of time and efforts and must be addressed as an emergency program to reduce the effects. If we concern the problem to slow, we are wasting our time. Wenn es uns trifft, dann wird die Tragweite so extrem sein, dass die Menschen zusammenarbeiten und Dinge tun, ja Opfer bringen mssen, die weit ber das hinausgehen, an was die meisten von uns im Ernst gedacht haben.