A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
Basil Gelpke, Director
2007 | 83 min
Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack present an absorbing, lucid and lively primer on the past, present and (dubious) future of oil. Interviews with energy specialists and archival footage - including news film and sprightly cartoons extolling the wonders of oil - make the story of our dependence on this non-renewable resource fresh and revealing. At the heart of this intelligent and entertaining investigation is an urgent question: if the first half of the oil age is now ending, what will happen in the second half, when oil supplies dwindle to zero?
