eli5 how has the planet not run out of oil?

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How can there be any oil left at this point? I cannot wrap my head around it — with all of the cars and airplanes, plus all of the plastic that’s also made from oil. How in the world isn’t it all gone by now?

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almost 100 million barrels per day is used in the world, and they estimate about 1.65 trillion barrels left that we can reach with current technology. The world is very large and theres a lot of oil. Still only equates to maybe 40-50 years left of crude oil unless they can dig even deeper and find more, we are slowly but surely moving towards electrictiy and other forms of product that can be used in place of oil. So im sure if the human population isnt extinct in the next 50 years and with tech advancing daily we wont need oil anymore by then

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