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June 5, 2005

Oil Storm on FX

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The FX Network is showing right now, and again tomorrow, a movie called "Oil Storm." It's a fake documentary set in the future about when the oil ran out. Watch it.

UPDATE: Eh, watch it if you want. Pretty disappointing, and in the end people were still driving SUVs. Alterative fuels were only mentioned like once the entire time. Poor.

The FX Network is showing right now, and again tomorrow, a movie called "Oil Storm." It's a fake documentary set in the future about when the oil ran out. Watch it.

UPDATE: Eh, watch it if you want. Pretty disappointing, and in the end people were still driving SUVs. Alterative fuels were only mentioned like once the entire time. Poor.

Posted by George at June 5, 2005 8:33 PM Category: Peak Oil

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I watched this. Did anyone else? Given it was on FOX I thought it was pretty good. It made one comment about needing to devlope our own oil resources so we weren't dependent on "foreign" oil. I was sure they were going to followup with the agenda to do that but they didn't. Then, it was foreign oil (Russian) that saved the US and put it back on a "stable" footing. I thought that the ending was highly unlikely - everything pretty much back to "normal." They didn't really address the issue of peak oil at all - just the fragility of the oil distribution system, and US dependence on oil.

Maybe it was because they didn't go to the issue of Peak oil that they let the show run. Wouldn't want folks going there.

Anyway, some of the social impacts were realistic.

Posted by: Rowan at June 6, 2005 5:42 PM

I agree that the ending was unbelievable, but the first 1/2 shows pretty well some of the consequences of the collapse of our oil economy. Which IS going to happen, not too far into the future. For that it was worth watching.

Posted by: Tom Marshall at June 6, 2005 5:50 PM

I am looking for a way to ask FX to re-run this. I am afraid its coming true. I feel that we have over extended our military and this is the first domino. Now Huricane Katrina has fell the fell the second domino in the theory put forth by theis movie's plot. I would like to urge FX to re run this movie. It was shown just a few months early. The american public would appriciate this moveie much more today.

marty

Posted by: insomniaworks at August 30, 2005 9:40 AM

That movie, I first seen when it came on.
ITS HAPPENING!!!!!

Posted by: Anthony johnson at August 30, 2005 5:34 PM

I is going to happen with the hurricane in N.O. be ready for at least have of the worst price in the movie or more

Posted by: Matt at August 30, 2005 6:26 PM

I also saw this movie when it first came out and I also think FX should re- run this movie as much as it possibly can so the american people can understand it is not a joke. It is REALITY. It is happening as we speak.

Posted by: Letty at September 1, 2005 8:52 AM

This Oil Strike show has suddenly come true in September of 2005.

Posted by: J.J. Amabile at September 1, 2005 12:24 PM

Yes its is happening right now.. The hurricane hit and flooded the refineries. I knew this was going to happen. Maybe if we pulled some troops out of IRAQ and put them in New Orleans prises might go down. President Bush did this to us when we went to Iraq, ya im happy we got saddam now lets leave the country we r spending way to much time there and lives... Also open up the 10,000 acres of more land in Alaska.At this rate we might say $3 dollars is low and 5 is high.

Posted by: devin at September 1, 2005 7:30 PM

Saw the original movie and when Katrina hit, I said there goes life imitating art? What we need is the President to lock oil prices at $50 a barrel or our economy will suffer like in the movie. But hey the oil companies own congress, the white house and our futures.When it all goes to hell in a hand basket maybe we will get some people in power that care more about this nation than their rich buddies!

Posted by: Kevin at September 1, 2005 9:24 PM

I would like a copy of "Oil Storm" which aired on FX in June 2005. I taped it and then Stupidly taped over it!!
Please let me know if anyone has a copy.
FX network does not.
Thanks.
Jean

Posted by: Jean Johnson at September 9, 2005 11:46 AM

Please show this movie again!!! Can I have a copy

Posted by: Shelley Bunce at September 22, 2005 8:45 PM