Oil-addicted world faces crude awakening

swissinfo: How many times a day do you say “I told you so”?

Ray McCormack: We don’t say that, but when people said we were scaremongering and just helping the oil companies make more profits, we would say “well we hope we’re wrong, but it doesn’t look like we are”.

But it’s not us: it’s the people in the film. It isn’t my concept that oil exists in finite quantities and sooner or later production will reach a point at which it can no longer rise and it then will slowly fall off while demand will stay the same or keep rising. That’s what peak oil is and it’s happening right now. People say you should never let facts get in the way of a good story, but for us the facts were the story!


swissinfo: At the end of the film I thought ‘that’s it