I don't think it'd ever happen.

Oil isn't dead for a start, it's not declining as many people say.

What will happen is the countries you see today producing oil will be replaced by other countries that produce oil.

oil is only dear because the Arab countries run OPEC and they make it dear so they get more money on the barrels of oil that are sitting in a warehouse.

The US government keep a trillion barrels of oil in a warehouse, just in case there's a war. the USA still produces it's own oil but there's not enough oil to keep stored and also to give out to the public, it's a case of 1 or the other and the US government decides it's better to store.

There's many African countries that sell a litre of petrol for 2 cents, in fact water is dearer than petrol in these countries much the same in the Arab countries.

The problem with Thorium is you need to make a safe rector and you'd need it small enough to fit in a car, and how many people are going to give a car with a rector in it with a 20 year old and not expect them to crash it.

you'd also have the mining costs, that's not cheap.

Perfect response lol.

They need to research plasma reactors(wrong term perhaps), like south korea is, they use a specific ion of hydrogen deterium that is beyond abundant in sea water.

As for cars just make a gradual transition to all electric powered vehicles, the technology in that area is constantly advancing, making the batteries smaller but hold a larger charge.

As for world scale power in the future, they need to develop machines with the sole purpose of producing anti-matter and storing it, relatively cheaply and in sufficient enough quantities to power our energy hungry society.

But with a general trend of making new devices, more powerful and use less energy or more efficiently and less energy wasted, we may not need as many power plants.

While not particularly pleasant, maybe hydrogen will be the dominant fuel source so long as we are still biological creatures.

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