A very well-done documentary on an issue that may be second only to climate change in its importance. The world is addicted to fossil fuels -- ie., oil and natural gas -- which, so far, have been relatively cheap because there's been plenty. But there is a finite amount of this stuff and we have now used up half of the world's original endowment of hydrocarbons. This film deals with much more than just suburbia; I think they named it the way they did in order to avoid being labeled as alarmist. Very much worth watching. Apparently this is a short version of the original (about one hour rather than 1.5) but the original is easily found on the torrents if not at your video store. There is a follow-up film entitled 'Escape From Suburbia' which is supposed to come out March 2007 and its trailer is already on the Sift.
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