Review – New Peak Oil Film

Last week I watched the new peak oil film, Crude Impact, produced by Vista Clara films, which has just emerged on DVD. It describes itself as

Crude Impact is a very useful addition to the peak oil DVD library, exploring areas that previous films have not yet gone into. Having said that, I did feel that the film possibly suffers from being too long. It runs for over 90 minutes, and despite my being avidly keen to watch it, I did catch my eyelids drooping occasionally. Although enjoyable, impactful and informative, I did feel that Crude Impact tries to do too many things. It attempts, within its 90 minutes, to be a film about peak oil, climate change, Third World development issues, solutions, economics and a few other things besides. Unlike the film it will inevitably be compared to, The End of Suburbia which does two things, peak oil and its impacts on the suburban pattern of living, Crude Impact spreads itself too thin and, I felt, suffers a bit as a result.

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