Got to get some scientists on this one. Genetically alter the suckers so they excrete 92 octane rather than crude oil.
Do they know for a fact that natural gas and oil was made by decaying dinosaurs? I heard of someone digging up a pertified tree which was thought to be 2 million years old. It was found only at a depth of 300 feet. How did the dead dinos get to the depth that they are drilling for oil at? Is that even geologically reasonable?
All the past calculations of when the oil would "run out" that I've ever heard of are based on the idea that hydrocarbons are leftover from decaying plant and animal matter, literally the buried forests and remains of animals from the Cambrian through the Cretaceous eras. In other words, if hydrocarbons do not originate from animal and plant life but are part of the structure of the planet, the amount available is way beyond what humans could possibly consume and is for all intents and purposes inexhaustible.
Oddly enough, astronomical observations in the last ten years have confirmed that hydrocarbons are common on other planets, none of which as far as we know have ever held life, so there seems to be ample scientific evidence to support the idea that the same is true on Earth.
Real disappointing news to the luddites and tree hugging Chicken Little's of this world.