Oil free in 20 years?

Sweden says 12 years. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/01/sweden_raises_t.php

Some industry savants say 20 years for most countries to be oil free. I think the analysts are assuming oil will still be used for aviation, plastics, and some industrial machines depending on cost and location.
I don't want us getting too far ahead of ourselves. Natural gas is 80% cleaner than petro, so I don't think anyone would have issue with trucks upgrading their diesel engines for natural gas which is quite simple and will become very common and cheap as the changes snowball.

Solar is just simply the best possible option in any sane person's mind. The sun delivers 7,700 zettajoules (ZJ) of energy to the Earth per year; of which half is absorbed by its surface components. Humans consume less than 0.48 zettajoules of energy per year. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Available_Energy-3.png

http://www.nanosolar.com/products.htm The guys making it feasible are in Ontario, CA. These guys beat out the iPhone for most innovative product of the year 2007. If you coat your roof with these wonderful panels you'll be getting checks from the power company every month for about double what you currently pay in. Current systems store 4KWH of juice for your house to run and perhaps charge your EV car. If you have 2 EVs you're going to need more than 4KWH capacity storage or charge your cars during daylight hours (not practical for most).

An interesting quote I read recently was it takes 660 pounds of coal to light your 100watt lightbulb for a year. That really pushed me over the edge. I think everyone has had enough with the no-talent-ass-clowns driving up oil prices, but this new concept of burning thousands of pounds of coal per year to keep us blogging is smacking us in the face despite prices. Sometimes it's a luxury to be stupid.