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"When oil supplies run out, civilisation will collapse" Agree or disagree?

Oil, coal and natural gas are all fossil fuels. They have been created through millions of years of abiotic material being deposited, heated and compressed- they are finite sources. It took several millions of years to create the world's oil fields, and no new oil is being produced, indicating the obvious fact that eventually there will be no more for us to use; and with the human race increasingly consuming the finite resources- which had remained untouched for millions of years- this evident crisis is looming closer and closer.
It is impossible to know exactly when the first oil was discovered and people realised that they could burn it, but estimates show that it was probably near to 10,000 ago. The first man to ever drill for oil was an American named Drake. In Pennsylvania, 1859, Drake drilled a well and eventually struck oil. Within the next 60 to 70 years, more and more people were going in......

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