- An unforgettable and shocking wake-up call, A Crude Awakening offers the rock-solid argument that the era of cheap oil is in the past. Relentless and clear-eyed, this intensively-researched film drills deep into the uncomfortable realities of a world that is both addicted to fossil fuels and blissfully unaware of the looming “peak oil” crisis. Drawing on an international cast of maveric
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An unforgettable and shocking wake-up call, A CRUDE AWAKENING offers the rock-solid argument that the era of cheap oil is in the past. Relentless and clear-eyed, this intensively-researched film drills deep into the uncomfortable realities of a world that is both addicted to fossil fuels and blissfully unaware of the looming “peak oil” crisis. Drawing on an international cast of maverick energy experts and thinkers, directors Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack debunk th… More >>
A Crude Awakening – The Oil Crash
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#1 by P. D. Grove on April 16, 2010 - 4:20 am
THese guys that write these book must do one sided research, Peak Oil LOL not yet. We’re finding out the earth core is producing more oil, sounds crayz ,but true. However, according to Popular Science Apr 2008 there are 175 Trillion thats right 175 TRILLION barrels of oil in Tar sands in Canada that they can extract a barrel of oil from for about $20.00 a barrel. Then you have 5 Trillion barrels of oil in OIL Shale in Colo,Wyo & Utah that they can produced a barrel of oil for about $40.00 a barrel. Then theres the Bakken Formation that stretches from Montana to N. Dakota and southern Canada that has 503 billion barrels of oil, then theres 40 or more billion barrels of oil on the Alaskan North Slope. 1/2 to 1/3 of the Gulf hasn’t been explored and the present pools are refilling from deeper deposits seeping upward- from where -do you remember the core.
I have a best frined who’s brother works on the Gulf oil rigs and he states they’ve capped off many excellent producing wells- wonder why? Maybe because Big Oil and Wall Street Commodity Traders want to keep getting richer with tight supplies.And we have all kinds of oil off the coast of Calif and Fla,plus 2 giant oil fields were just found recently off the coast of Brazil. China supposedly has all kinds of oil but no infrastructure to get it out and piped to refineries which they don’t have either since it’s rural country for the most part. Do we need to move from oil absolutely but not for quite awhile yet. But, fear books sell better, yet all the above info is readily available on the web if one has the time and searches for it.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by B. Johnson on April 16, 2010 - 7:16 am
After watching this movie, which by the way does not preach, you realize that there is nothing to do but, as Bob Dylan said, “keep on keeping on”. Enjoy your life and get HD TV for the upcoming war(s).
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by G. Hansford on April 16, 2010 - 9:14 am
This documentary describes a process that is inevitable… but at least it describes it rather than putting ones head in the sand and denying it.
The more people that are aware of what will happen when cheap plentiful energy becomes scarce expensive energy the better.
Highly recommended.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by J. S. McDaniel on April 16, 2010 - 9:47 am
Iraq was about oil, and this is the proof. If you can’t see the writing on the wall now, then you are so blinded by political, economic and cultural bias that reality will never penetrate your defenses. Stay in denial. Some of us are preparing, and it will be survival of the fittest. Meet you in the trenches.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by William Mann on April 16, 2010 - 11:13 am
I was rather hoping that there would be some sort of way out of this mess, but we have crossed the point of no return.
Rating: 5 / 5