Damn. TLAM beat me to it.
Rest assured, Deuce, - and all those who share the opinion that we're on the verge of some kind of oil crisis - we'll be fine. The technology for synthesizing oil has been around for at least, like, 80 years now; we just don't use it because it's more efficient to drill at the moment.
For now, I rest my case in the interests of not completely derailing the thread and/or cluttering it with massive blocks of text, (I do that a lot
) but I trust the topic will come up again and we can discuss it in-depth at that time.