A Crude Awakening is a 90-minute documentary about the world’s rapidly dwindling oil resources, produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack.
A Crude Awakening highlights that we have already reached peak oil supply and that from here on in, the world can no longer keep up with current demands of oil consumption. Currently the world is consuming more than 20-30 billion barrels of oil a year and there is no available technology that can replace the energy we extract from oil.
More than 70% of the world’s oil is used for transport and more than 98% of transportation fuel comes from oil. Not surprisingly, America uses more than 25% of the global oil consumption, but is only producing 2% of the world’s oil. It is one of the world’s worst kept secrets that America’s high consumption of oil drives their foreign policy.
A Crude Awakening documents where oil comes from, the degradation it causes and what happens to communities and countries when the oil dries up. The undeniable link between oil and war is also highlighted through the Kuwait invasion by Iraq, followed by the subsequent American and British invasion of Iraq. The American and British were unable to secure weapons of mass destruction, reports A Crude Awakening, but they were able to secure the oil fields. Increasingly, industry experts report that oil is going to be a principal catalyst for war.
The future of oil is grim. More than 58 countries around the globe are producing less oil than they have in the past, but the demand for oil continues to rise. The quest to find more oil will continue to wreak more havoc on the environment. In Canada, the Albertan tar sands will be mined for oil, even though it takes more energy from natural gas to produce the oil than the energy that we will be able to extract from the tar sands oil itself. Matt Savinar, creator of Life After the Oil Crash website (www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net), points out ‘individuals only mine the tar sands because they have used up all the easy access, better quality oil’.
A Crude Awakening is a must-see for anyone who is concerned about dwindling supplies of oil and governments’ denial of the problem. Our main criticism is the lack of narration in the film made the overall presentation of the information a little disjointed and, at times, difficult to follow.
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