Crude: The Real Price of Oil--anyone seen this?

Thanks, I saved it to my netflix queue since I doubt it will come to my area.
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Crude/70112742

 

Cleveland isn't all that far, usually takes roughly 45 minutes to get downtown with moderate traffic, most of the city is such a run down dump I hate going there.

 

People often wonder why proven oil, gas, and shale reserves are untouched in North America. The real reason has to do with cost, the end cost.

Much like our electronics industry, it was so much more convenient to outsource everything, so we could lead our clean, comfy Western lifestyles, without any thought whatsoever to the consequences

If you want to solve this problem, stop consuming. If you want to pretend the problem can be left with poor people in foreign countries, express fake moral outrage, keep consuming and pretend it will all go away

 

when i saw the title, i figured i had seen it, but i guess this is a different one. actually have seen a few "scary" docs. watched one concerning the national debt... the numbers on that one was pretty daunting.

but i put this on netflix as well

**edit**

the movie i saw was A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash done in 2006... fairly gloomly. probably worse now

 

Very good Tony, you are 100% correct.

I've often countered with ignorant folks who presume we have "fixed" the environment, that we should immediately require all petroleum and electronics to be sourced right here.

They'd change their tune, pronto

 

Speaking of airports, just make sure if you have to use the can, that disgraced former Idaho senator Larry Craig isn't in the next stall

Unless you like playing "footsies" while in the can. In which case, rock on

 

Just make sure your feet are wearing condoms

 

one on each toe?

could be a waste of precious petroleum.

 

All depends on what those toes are doing ... nudge nudge wink wink

 

2PM showing at U.C. Irvine down the road, day after tomorrow (Friday) ... sounds like a good reason to leave work a tad early. After reading the above posts ... I won't be using the stalls

hwell:

I'll give my siskell & ebert afterwards

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we await said S&E. How were the stalls?

 

I wish I could join you. It would only take me about 5min to get there, but they need me at my job.

 

i hope this movie will comeout here or if not is downloadable.

 

In that case - Depends

Just not in the stalls

 

'she who must be obeyed' didn't give it a "thumbs up" ... but I figured it'd be that way. She likes happy endings, & you get none here. You won't be walking on sunshine afterwards ... that's for sure. It's a documentary larger in significance than Valdez ... and the Oilies avoided paying out on that spill for about 20 years ... in fact it was only about 9 months ago (Dec of 2008) that paychecks were mailed off to Alaska. I wasn't aware of the oil production deaths / illness / environmental destruction there in South America, so I'm still glad I went. Here's a nice write-up that reuters did on it.

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE5885L020090910
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