A Crude Awakening The Oil Crash
DVDriP (2006)
Documentary
Supported by a powerful mix of archival footage, NASA shots of burning oil
fields, and, often unintentionally hilarious, historical film excerpts, OilCrash
guides us on an exotic, visual journey from Houston to Caracas, the Lake of
Maracaibo, the Orinoco delta, Central Asia's secretive republic of Azerbaijan
with its ancient capital Baku and the Caspian Sea, via London & Zόrich.
OilCrash visits cities around the world to learn of our future from such
leading authorities as oil investment banker Matthew Simmons, former
OPEC chairman Fadhil Chalabhi, Caltech's head of physics, Professor
David Goodstein, Stanford University political scientist, Terry Lynn
Karl, peak oil expert, Matthew Savinar and many more.
Its happening now, be prepared!
The most fascinating aspect to A CRUDE AWAKENING is that the film was made
not by some left-wing conspiracy theorists with ties to Greenpeace or The World
Wildlife Fund, but by two Swiss directors, one (Gelpke) with a background in
anthropology, economics, war reporting, and science films, and the other
(McCormack) who holds an honors degree in Environmental Policy and
Management. These two men know how to make a documentary that looks
at both sides of our oil needs and industry while not knocking our addictive
behavior towards gasoline. It does lack a few aspects in the end, but holds
your attention enough to make the whole watchable.
The focus, as the title suggests, is on our crude oil dependency. We all know oil
won't last forever, right? Right? Please tell me you know this. If not, you really
need to watch this film. It looks at the boom and bust methodology used in
early crude oil finds and how we naively thought (up until the 1970s) that
oil/gas would last forever.
A Crude Awakening The Oil Crash DVDriP (2006) 
