Without energy?

Without oil, yesterday and today wouldn't be a difference. Schools might be closer than usual, The people you meet would be the same living in one community, and you might have never seen anywhere else. You would probably live in a crowded apartment building in a city because the ability to travel quickly might not be available. Without oil most of the products we use today will be impacted. We might not be able to grow enough corn and soybeans to replace the oil we presently use. If we start making plastics out of soybeans, or corn, to replace oil, we will have even less left over for fuel and food. If we don't have plastics, we can't have computers as we know them. Coal mining would likely be much more extensive than it is today. Your electricity supply might get shut off much more often. Airplane travel might not exist. One of the problems that an airplane must deal with is the ability to carry enough energy with a low enough weight to be able to fly. Coal doesn't work too well for airplanes. Neither does bio diesel or alcohol.

If oil was never pumped, it would still be leaking naturally onto the surface of the earth. Thousands of barrels of oil leak naturally out of the earth, and evaporate chemicals; broken down and returned to the atmosphere.Like In California, billions of cubic feet of natural gas and thousands of barrels of oil seep naturally into the environment, and many of the seeps are believed to be as old as 30 million years. Oil is a natural part of the environment, and is a part of the Earth's carbon cycle that moves in and out of the atmosphere. Almost all of that oil was once in the planet's atmosphere as carbon dioxide, and was simply stored by plants and animals. Oil is truly stored solar energy, combined with a certain amount of geothermal energy that has been stored naturally by the planet.

There are approximately 3 trillion or more barrels of oil in the earth, and at least 1 trillion of those used already. But since the technologies on earth are developing, there are always ways to extract more and more hydrocarbons from the earth. As recovery methods improve, that oil may someday be available. As we learn to utilize things like coal bed methane, oil sands, gas shale, oil shale, and other sources we may begin to add to those 3 trillion barrels.