What benefits have the decrease of oil supply brought? Alternative energy? Go Green!? What else?

Okay, we all know that the world's oil supply is decreasing as every day pass by, my question is due to this what have we been forced into developing? New and alternate ways to continue our living without or by using less gas/petroleum, why is running low of oil beneficial to us?What benefits have the decrease of oil supply brought? Alternative energy? Go Green!? What else?
I guess technically oil is ';running out'; but not anytime soon. Our own department of energy predicts that by 2030 fossil fuels will still make up 80% of our energy mix (most of that being oil and gas). And that's a pretty conservative estimate. It would be nice if our government would make energy policy based on real data like that and not politics. Even if we were to have a breakthrough in techonology that would make renewable energy more efficient (which is still a long way off according to most experts) people often forget the scale in which energy companies operate. For example, if we wanted to switch from gasoline to ethonal we would have to use 6 times the arable land the US has exclusively for the production of corn and other things and nothing else. And every other type of renewable energy has similar problems, not to mention the huge amounts of new infrastructure we would need and would take decades to build.





Personally I think its great that we're really trying promote renewable energy, but I think we need to be a lot more realistic.





Additional Info: Wolf Harper is the exact kind of person I'm talking about. Actually he's probably even worse because he makes it sound like he knows what he's talking about. I'd love to know what sources he's using. And no, Al Gore's website is not a legitamate source. The DOE on the other hand is a completely unbiased source. They have no interest in distorting the facts like this guy. I work in the energy industry and I study it all the time. Because of my job I also have access to a lot of information that most people do not. So I know a lot more than this guy below me, and I can tell you he's dead wrong.What benefits have the decrease of oil supply brought? Alternative energy? Go Green!? What else?
we are running low on oil because oil companies are not allowed to drill where we know they have proven reserves. its a scam. the computer your on is made from oil products
2030? I think not. Even the oil companies are saying peak oil is 2015. A lot of raw data suggests more like 2005.





The thing is, peak oil has had NO EFFECT WHATSOEVER on the technologies and systems we use. Reality hasn't set in. It hasn't hit us long enough and hard enough yet. Even the price runup of 2005-2008 has been dismissed as a flash in the pan - after all, oil prices came back down, right? (yes at the expense of a massive world economic collapse!)





So nothing has been forced to be developed yet. However, a few visionaries are looking into hybrid automobiles, electric cars. Wind/solar electricity doesn't really count, since it's replacing coal, and peak coal is a long way off. A lot of people have been doing amazing things with the #1 energy user in your life - your house. Heating and cooling it. Of course, all these advancements were NOT driven by peak oil concerns. They were driven by environmental concerns, ';self-sufficient living';, or concerns over dependence on foreign oil.





For instance T. Boone Pickens, who is an OIL MAN for Jiminy's sake, is building thousands of windmills. NOT because of peak oil, but because of foreign oil. His plan is to replace natural-gas power generation with wind-power generation, saving a bunch of natural gas, and then use the natural gas in vehicles to get away from petroleum.





Agriculture remains a total disaster. A misnamed ';Green Revolution'; figured out how to use petroleum to massively increase crop yield. This prevented Bangladesh from starving, great! Except it made world agriculture hopelessly dependent on foreign oil. We need ';Green Revolution 2.0 the oil-free revolution'; to feed the world. Where's our best shot for that coming from? Not people concerned with peak oil, but people concerned with pesticides and GMO in their food.





So we're doing NOTHING about peak oil. In some cases we are doing things that will help with peak oil, but we are doing them for other reasons. We are asleep at the switch.