On your bikes, urges Hollywood movie

Starring George Clooney, Matt Damon, and William Hurt, the new Warner Bros film ‘Syriana’ is a complex thriller set against the backdrop of a world thirsty for oil, and with politicians and oil producers and terrorists eager to get their slice of the action. The film’s production company has set up a campaigning website to further explore the West’s crippling dependence on oil. The Peak Oil concept is therefore going mainstream and the first point in a ‘reduce your oil use’ action plan is to cycle instead of drive.

However, the ‘Oil Change’ website majors on getting Americans to switch to energy efficient cars and there’s even a tie-in with the Segway Corp to win a battery-driven Segway. These ‘Human Transporters’ may have less of an energy footprint than cars but they’re hardly as eco-sound as bicycles…

Not exactly normal Hollywood material, ‘Syriana’ offers a “gripping portrayal of the moral, political and financial corruption unleashed by the world’s insatiable thirst for oil.”

‘Syriana’ takes audiences inside a global energy system that “keeps us warm at night, gets us to work in the morning, and creates devastating potential for conflict and violence.”

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