<p>Since the onset of the 21 st Century, a great emphasis is made on the policies<br />
dealing with environment protection and Sustainable Development. To give this<br />
concern a more concrete platform, many treaties and alliances have been signed<br />
by various global powers as a step towards environment conservation like the<br />
Earth Summit and Paris Agreement. The most stirring issue out of this is<br />
&#39;Replacing the fossil fuels by Renewable Sources Of Energy as an automobile fuel&#39;.</p>

<p>Petrol has been one of the most vital resource since its discovery, many great<br />
conflicts, treaties and ceasefires has been issued between the countries because<br />
of Petrol and Oil. In recent years, all the governments have agreed onto the use of<br />
Electric cars so as to minimize the dependency on petrol and control the green<br />
house emissions. Various governments including the Govt. Of India has launched<br />
subsidy schemes so as to promote the use of electric cars by 2035.</p>

<p>However, as the world shifts to more efficient resources, the importance of Petrol<br />
on the global front will drastically decrease since it&#39;s use will be limited only to<br />
manufacturing of asphalt and petro-chemicals. The countries of the Middle and<br />
Near East will suffer economically as their economies were largely dependent on<br />
the Petrol and Oil trade for near about a century. The richness of the middle east<br />
countries was brought by the trade of petrol and oil and hence the Gulf countries<br />
will lose their prominence on the world stage in terms of trade and resources. As<br />
an alternative source of income to save and revive their economy, the countries<br />
of middle east who earlier used to depend on Petrol and fossils will need to shift<br />
to either Service Based Economy or Agriculture Based Economy.<br />
Another geopolitical aspect which will get affected is that, the region in and<br />
around the Middle East Countries will get more stabilized as there will be no</p>

<p>internal instability of the power as well as no threat of foreign invasion. Majority<br />
of the wars fought in Middle East throughout the 20 th century had Petrol as its<br />
epicentre. Every country then, in order to secure the continuous supply and<br />
access to petroleum would invade a resource rich country and take over its<br />
lucrative reserves of oil and petrol. The world has witnessed many such wars like<br />
the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq&#39;s occupation of the Kuwait and the Iraq war.<br />
The special treatment received by this countries having oil and petroleum<br />
reserves will also end as the world will move towards more sustainable use of<br />
energy resource. Political stability in the countries of the region will be ensured as<br />
there will be no more military coups, overthrowing of democratically elected<br />
governments and detaining of the political prisoners.</p>

<p>The major global superpowers have been making alliances with the countries in<br />
order to secure the Petrol supply so as to avoid the sudden increase in the price<br />
of the essential commodity which fuels the automobiles. The decrease in<br />
importance of Petrol will thus lead to drop in number of illegal activities like<br />
funding of terrorism, selling of arms and revolutionary, anti-government<br />
movements. The USA has been the largest exporter of arms to the middle east<br />
countries who then themselves fight for securing more Oil and petroleum<br />
reserves and cause loss of life and property.<br />
There are accounts of attack on schools and hospitals in Yemen, Saudi and Iraq.<br />
This anti-social activities will come to halt once the prominence of these countries<br />
will decrease with decreasing importance of Petrol.<br />
Thus, a shift of the automobiles from Petrol to Electricity as their fuel will lead to<br />
sudden rise in tensions among the middle east countries but it will eventually<br />
become subtle and hence peace will be maintained in the adjoining regions as<br />
well as on the global front.</p>
