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Peak Oil on Prime Time TV (Run for your life!!)

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Peak Oil on Prime Time TV (Run for your life!!)

Unread postby tb » Mon 20 Sep 2004, 20:51:51

I was browsing around on my favorite consiracy web pages and found this nugget at urbansurvival.com: westwing.bewarne.com/sixth/605hubbert.html
and West Wing

It looks like West Wing is to have an episode featuring Peak Oil. The episode is to air sometime after November (after the elections, of course). Hmmm.. If Uncle M. King is being discussed on prime time TV, maybe its past time to buy those 40 acres to plant and the pair of Belgian-Percheron draft horses to plow it with.

Hope my note stirs up some interest. Yours truly, from the heart of the permian basin, tb
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Unread postby mmm » Mon 20 Sep 2004, 21:07:54

Six Feet Under carried several episodes in which one character repeatedly referred to Peak Oil (not by name, but he kept talking about running out of oil -- and potable water). Eventually they had the character start to go nuts, talk to himself, stock up on water and move into a bomb shelter.
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Unread postby some_guy282 » Mon 20 Sep 2004, 22:05:54

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mmm', 'S')ix Feet Under carried several episodes in which one character repeatedly referred to Peak Oil (not by name, but he kept talking about running out of oil -- and potable water). Eventually they had the character start to go nuts, talk to himself, stock up on water and move into a bomb shelter.


Yeah, I saw those episodes and I was happy when George mentioned those things. He came off as very intelligent and concerned... at first. Now it looks like they're going to officially declare him a paranoid schizophrenic in the next season opener. Sad.
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Unread postby Whitecrab » Mon 20 Sep 2004, 22:55:09

Reading the spoilers:


It just sounds like some aide suffers a bitch-fest from the alternative energy industry, and then accidentally runs over a Prius with a hummer. Not going to wake up the masses, but it'll make a nice punchline for a peak oil talk.
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Unread postby WebHubbleTelescope » Tue 21 Sep 2004, 00:49:17

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'a')nd then accidentally runs over a Prius with a hummer


A Hummer? To completely put it over the top, maybe they should have considered the International CXT:
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2004/09/dis-gust.html

Much, much better tax breaks for the up-and-coming beltway bandit.
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