Off topic, but we can't. All the readily available sources of energy have been used. As someone else said, this is literally the last great civilization. Best not screw it up!
That's a note on whether a future civilization without access to our knowledge attempted it, no? I imagine some good physics and engineering texts from now might help a future civilization bootstrap itself technologically, even you have to slowly and painfully jump a few steps that would be easier with readily available oil.
