"This is the age of oil, but the age of oil is about to end," said Lori Snyder of UW-Eau Claire's geology department.
In 1950, the U.S. did not import any oil. Today, we still like our cars, and we have to import 60 percent of the oil we use to support our driving habit, she said.
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