How does the surface of the earth not collapse on itself with the amount of oil we drill for?

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With the amount of oil that we remove from the ground, how does the surface of the earth not collapse in on itself, especially when we exhaust the supply of oil?

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Also we are highly unlikely to exhaust the supply of oil before we are already using something else….There are probably more barrels we don’t have the technology to efficiently extract then there are barrels we do.