A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash

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?