A Crude Awakening - The Oil Crash
A Crude Awakening - The Oil Crash
By Viola Woolcott
“A Crude Awakening” is a must watch documentary for everyone. It’s a wake up call to even progressives who denounce the Iraq War, but unwittingly live a lifestyle that is dependent upon who controls the flow of oil. “A Crude Awakening” is a frightening and factual synopsis of the oil crisis that lies ahead of modern society. We are moving from cheap abundant energy supply to scarce, hard to get and expensive energy.
Really, this documentary should be shown on TV to get its message out there.
From the filmmakers:
OilCrash, produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled.
The idea that the world’s oil supplies have peaked, or will soon, is gaining mainstream currency. Robert B. Semple, Jr., associate editor of the New York Times editorial board, writes in the paper’s March 1, 2006, online edition:
“The Age of Oil — 100-plus years of astonishing economic growth made possible by cheap, abundant oil — could be ending without our really being aware of it. Oil is a finite commodity. At some point even the vast reservoirs of Saudi Arabia will run dry. But before that happens there will come a day…
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A Crude Awakening - The Oil Crash
Oil is black blood…Oil is the blood of the dinosaurs……oil is the bloodstream of the world economy…Oil is the blood of the Earth… !!
Related links:
BuzzFlash Reviews
Crude Awakening Website
The Oil Drum
Filed under: Dare 2B Aware on January 29th, 2008
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