FX Docu-Drama "Oil Storm" on now

[evworldeditor]

FX Channel airing "Oil Storm" -- a docu-drama that builds on a set of plausible scenarios as hurricane destroys Louisana oil and gas port that compounds one event after another.

This should be on the major networks, not the FX channel

[NMDemDist2]

1. it's very well done too... n/t

[pstans]

2. Here is another thread...

Here is another thread with posts about the movie.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3792321

[evworldeditor]

3. Everything Will Go Back To Normal?

Oil will flow endlessly from Russia?

Okay.... lip service paid to conservation and alternative energy sources?

Show concludes with oil at over $4 a gallon.

Producers obviously didn't want to take a position on peak oil.

Still.. the program will make you think.

[pstans]

5. Could have been better

But at least it is getting the message out about Peak Oil and what could happen. In the movie the cause of the crisis is a Hurricane, which could be linked to Global Warming and wasn't. The harsh winter could have been linked to Global Warming and wasn't.

I thought the movie was good. They didn't take a political stand, just showed what could happen.

The ending where everything was going to go back to normal is highly unlikely. Something would have to change. What? Maybe that is what the policy makers decide.

[Peachhead22]

8. Evworldeditor said:

"Show concludes with oil at over $4 a gallon."

I though that was a not so subtle dig at the oil companies. Oil starts out about $2.20 a gallon. #$%& hits the fan and it goes way up. The crisis is "resolved" and oil goes down (relatively speaking) to double what is was before the spike and everyone thinks that's just ducky.

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I thought the show was decent, but a little heavy handed. And the end had a definite deux ex machina quality to it. I fear the people it would have helped most just tuned it out as "liberal propaganda". Plus, like others have said, it only gave lip service to conservation and alternative fuels. Also, one of the major quick fixes, I mean "solutions" in the show was to pump more oil domestically (read: ANWR). Sadly, I suspect all some people will get out of the show is "we gotta drill more domestically and build more refineries".

[ellenfl]

4. i'm surprised it's on ANY channel! eom

[Zynx]

6. Some Hokum and flag waving, not too bad.

Did come off as somewhat pro-Bush, but the government in general looked like idiots throughout.

Unsure if this was supposed to be propaganda.

[Junkdrawer]

7. Well.. it's becoming more and more transparent that Iraq is about Oil...

so we're going to be shown just how much we depend on Oil.

I've worried that, with the right propaganda, the public could be made to accept wars for Oil. We'll see. If you start seeing more and more stuff with the not-so-subtle message of "we REALLY need that oil"....