[anthonymcgrath]

South Africa have a heck of a lot of coal tho (my father used to work in them when we lived out there) and they also have coal to oil plants that can spit out 160,000 barrels of oil a day. China also have similar plants.

SA have the facilities to create alot of oil BUT its still a tiny drop of America's daily diet (something like 0.5% lol!). Whether it will be pushed further for SA is another question but one things for sure if they do step up production they'll certainly become more "appealing" to greedy eyes overseas. Oil will run out and the nearest thing to it will take its place. It'd be nice to think elec motors would replace it but that doesn't make barrels of money.