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"A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash" (full film)

submitted by calvados

1 decade 6 years 10 months 2 weeks ago

(1hr 23min) "A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash" is an award-winning [2006] documentary film about peak oil, produced and directed by Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack. [...The film] explores key historical events, data and predictions regarding the global peak in petroleum production through interviews with petroleum geologists, former OPEC officials, energy analysts, politicians, and political analysts. The film contains contemporary footage interspersed with news and commercial footage from the growth heydays of petroleum production. The documentary focuses on information and testimony that supports the projection of a near-term oil production peak.

--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crude_Awakening:_The_Oil_Crash

15 Comments

I've seen this, worth watching, nice insight into day-to-day dealings of the oil industry and market

edit: i lied mistook it for some other docu on peak oil, but i'm watching this right now, good post

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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Saturday, January 12th, 2008 3:29pm PST - promote requested by Farhad2000.

Thanks Farhad!

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fissionchips

*promote in light of what ought to be front page news:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Peak-Oil-in-T-11-Years-Straight-from-the-horse-s-mouth

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 5:53pm PDT - promote requested by fissionchips.

Ta fish!

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Awarding eric3579 with one Power Point for fixing this video's dead embed code.

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