Going the Wrong Direction

Over the last year there have been billions of new oil and natural gas reservoirs found and exploited. This number is so high because of new technologies that allow drilling through previously impenetrable material. This new drilling, while beneficial to the companies is extremely expensive and time consuming to produce. While gas is still the current source of fuel for the world, maybe it would be better if we let technology move on, and let us run out of oil.
Oil companies control much of the economy, similar to pectordictatorship, and because of this, when they got nervous about the declining resources, ignoring the fact that they made a record sum of money last year, they forced many scientists to help them make new ways to further abuse our earth. Humanity in the whole has never stayed still for so long, we are always developing new ways and new technologies for making life easier or more enjoyable. So, why are we staying hopelessly dependant on oil for so long. We have stopped making progress, while some might see the new drills as progress, why not pass oil by? It is a fuel from the past and must be treated as such, use all that new innovative ideas and time that was wasted on the drills and put it towards the research to find a clean alternative energy sources. It would be better for humanity.
Right now, people are not very motivated to find other source of production. What if the oil was suddenly running out, we could see the end in the future? I think as we could see the end of oil looming upon us, we would get our asses in gear and put a renewed, huge effort into fining a new way to keep our world moving. If all of a sudden there was no gas for cars, no plastics being made, nothing that was run or produced though nonrenewable resources, it seems that most new inventions would have the same theme; get back what we lost. there would be new products everyday replacing what we had on oil. It would defiantly be a make or brake situation, the government would have to still have a supply of gas to create these new source of power, but it could be done. It would give America a new chance to show how we come together in times of crisis and lead the world.