PeakOil is You
Movie: "Oil Storm"
[Oil Storm Movie on FX]
by UIUCstudent01 » Wed 08 Jun 2005, 13:24:32
It's called "Oil Storm" not Oil Shock...
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by MrPC » Wed 08 Jun 2005, 14:25:27
I'm surprised it's not reached channel BT thus far. Care to bet on how many years til anyone in Australia picks up the rights to air or otherwise distribute it?
The purpose of human life revolves around an endless need to extract ever increasing amounts of carbon out of the ground and then release it into the atmosphere.
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by Budmeister » Wed 08 Jun 2005, 18:50:40
All in all, I rather enjoyed it. Granted, its not "peak oil theory", but I think it clearly showed exactly how close to the edge we are in terms of supply and demand. "A million barrels of oil a day, thats 10% of the oil that America uses everyday." My question is, does everybody do with 10% less oil or does 10% of the American people (the poorest 10% of Americans) do without any oil at all. Hmmm. I especially like the station owners wife lamenting, (paraphrasing here) "How could we ever let oil become so critical to our lives?"
True, they toned down or glossed over some points I wish they had expounded on a little more. Like how quickly a "normal" life would come screeching to a halt. How quickly supermarket shelves would become bare. Grown children moving back in with their parents, so all would have a better chance at living. The oldest, weakest, or poorest dying because they could no longer afford food, medicine or heating. The rioting, killing, rampaging when people have nothing left to lose. Those points.
I think the movie was a good effort at a difficult subject that nobody "normal" wants to hear about.
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True, they toned down or glossed over some points I wish they had expounded on a little more. Like how quickly a "normal" life would come screeching to a halt. How quickly supermarket shelves would become bare. Grown children moving back in with their parents, so all would have a better chance at living. The oldest, weakest, or poorest dying because they could no longer afford food, medicine or heating. The rioting, killing, rampaging when people have nothing left to lose. Those points.
I think the movie was a good effort at a difficult subject that nobody "normal" wants to hear about.
Bud
(just another not-normal PO'er)
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by Clouseau2 » Thu 09 Jun 2005, 14:41:31
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'O')ne more thing, did anyone else notice that at the end of the film gasoline was about $4.29 and crude was about $77.00 and 'things returned to normal'?
How many long haul trucker you think will still be on the road at $4.29 a gallon for deisel fuel? How many airlines will be in the air with jet fuel anywhere near $4.00 per gallon?
Hardly what we currently think of as normal!
How many long haul trucker you think will still be on the road at $4.29 a gallon for deisel fuel? How many airlines will be in the air with jet fuel anywhere near $4.00 per gallon?
Hardly what we currently think of as normal!
I don't know if truckers in Europe get a tax rebate on their fuel or not, but their fuel is $6/gallon and the economy there seems to still function.
Airlines are another story, there will have to be a major capacity reduction since demand will plummet.
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by Tanada » Fri 10 Jun 2005, 18:31:21
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Clouseau2', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'O')ne more thing, did anyone else notice that at the end of the film gasoline was about $4.29 and crude was about $77.00 and 'things returned to normal'?
How many long haul trucker you think will still be on the road at $4.29 a gallon for deisel fuel? How many airlines will be in the air with jet fuel anywhere near $4.00 per gallon?
Hardly what we currently think of as normal!
How many long haul trucker you think will still be on the road at $4.29 a gallon for deisel fuel? How many airlines will be in the air with jet fuel anywhere near $4.00 per gallon?
Hardly what we currently think of as normal!
I don't know if truckers in Europe get a tax rebate on their fuel or not, but their fuel is $6/gallon and the economy there seems to still function.
Airlines are another story, there will have to be a major capacity reduction since demand will plummet.
How much of the European trucking is long haul? I beleive though I do not have any figures, thet long haul cargo in the EU is all done by freight train. Short haul trucking is only needed to distribute goods from rail supplied warehouses to local retail outlets, a very different situation than that which exists in the USA today.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Alfred Tennyson', 'W')e are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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This show was too popular (or was it?) to not show up on ANY p2p networks!
