[clv101]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]Peak Oil at the Movies: Oil Crash & Crude Impact

Documentaries have recently broken new ground with a series of high profile, lucrative, theatrical releases such as Super Size Me, Fahrenheit 9/11 and most notably Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.

Peak oil proponents have adopted the format with the 2004 release of End of Suburbia, Peak Oil: Imposed by Nature in 2005 and The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil early 2006. More recently two new documentaries have been touring the film festivals in search of distribution deals, first Oil Crash: A Crude Awakening and towards the end of the year Crude Impact.

See article for trailers and reviews of Crude Impact and Oil Crash.

http://europe.theoildrum.com/story/2006/12/10/104621/34

[killJOY]

I'm writing to protest the movie "Crude Impact" which has the potential to innoculate the public from the reality of peak oil.

I wrote a brief review here that the filmmaker responded to.

I decided to watch the film again to see if I had been overly critical.

Actually, I had not been critical enough.

Crude Impact moves you at a glacial pace to an utterly BULLSHIT CONCLUSION.

Uninformed people who watch Crude Impact will get the idea that they just have to a) switch to compact fluorescent bulbs b) buy local produce and c) become "politically involved" and our problems will be solved.

In order:

a) "compact fluorescents": the filmmakers have pulled a switcheroo that attempts to lull the public into complacency. They go from "oil consumption" to "energy usage" in one fell swoop. No one on this board needs to be reminded that electricity is by-and-large not generated through oil. People here also know that well over 90% of our transportation fuels come from petroleum, yet this is glossed over in the film. Changing to fluorescents is a BULLSHIT "SOLUTION."

(We've done it here at home, by the way: all our bulbs are CFs. We save $$ every month. We have no illusions that this somehow insulates us from the effects of peak oil.)

b) "local farmers": The film says, "Get to know your local farmers."

WHAT LOCAL FARMERS? I LIVE IN A "RURAL" STATE. THERE ARE NO LOCAL FARMERS HERE. We lhave to grow most of our own food to stay "local."

BULLSHIT!


c) "get involved politically": What the f--- does that mean? If we VOTE for crappy politician A over crappy politician B, we'll solve peak oil?

BULLSHIT!


The beginning of the film says we need to start getting into lifeboats.

The end of the film abandons the lifeboats and offers bromides.

The final insult is watching Tom "Hundredth Monkey" Hartmann say "tag, you're it," meaning, 'even YOU can do something about peak oil.'


BULLSHIT

BULLSHIT

BULLSHIT!

[KhanCEO]

Thank you , KillJoy I really enjoyed reading your post. =) Where can I watch Crude Impact on the net?

[killJOY]

don't think you can (yet). I had to BUY IT.

[MacG]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('killJOY', 'I')'m writing to protest the movie "Crude Impact" which has the potential to innoculate the public from the reality of peak oil.

I wrote a brief review here that the filmmaker responded to.

I decided to watch the film again to see if I had been overly critical.

Actually, I had not been critical enough.

Crude Impact moves you at a glacial pace to an utterly BULLSHIT CONCLUSION.

Uninformed people who watch Crude Impact will get the idea that they just have to a) switch to compact fluorescent bulbs b) buy local produce and c) become "politically involved" and our problems will be solved.

In order:

a) "compact fluorescents": the filmmakers have pulled a switcheroo that attempts to lull the public into complacency. They go from "oil consumption" to "energy usage" in one fell swoop. No one on this board needs to be reminded that electricity is by-and-large not generated through oil. People here also know that well over 90% of our transportation fuels come from petroleum, yet this is glossed over in the film. Changing to fluorescents is a BULLSHIT "SOLUTION."

(We've done it here at home, by the way: all our bulbs are CFs. We save $$ every month. We have no illusions that this somehow insulates us from the effects of peak oil.)

b) "local farmers": The film says, "Get to know your local farmers."

WHAT LOCAL FARMERS? I LIVE IN A "RURAL" STATE. THERE ARE NO LOCAL FARMERS HERE. We lhave to grow most of our own food to stay "local."

BULLSHIT!


c) "get involved politically": What the f--- does that mean? If we VOTE for crappy politician A over crappy politician B, we'll solve peak oil?

BULLSHIT!


The beginning of the film says we need to start getting into lifeboats.

The end of the film abandons the lifeboats and offers bromides.

The final insult is watching Tom "Hundredth Monkey" Hartmann say "tag, you're it," meaning, 'even YOU can do something about peak oil.'


BULLSHIT

BULLSHIT

BULLSHIT!