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DVD ~ Basil Gelpke & Ray McCormack
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  • Directors: Basil Gelpke & Ray McCormack
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: Artificial Eye
  • DVD Release Date: 24 Mar 2008
  • Run Time: 82 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0011W2IL0
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,406 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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A shocking wake-up call that is set to do for energy what Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' did for the environment, 'A Crude Awakening' is a compelling, intelligent and urgent warning that the age of abundant oil is over. Featuring testimonies from the world's top experts, this startling documentary reaches an ominous yet logical conclusion the Earth's oil supplies are peaking and a crisis of global proportions looms. Even more alarmingly, industrial societies don't have any plans how to deal with the shortage, threatening the future of our post-industrialised fossil fuel-addicted civilization with disaster.


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Filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack team up to deliver a grave warning in this documentary on the oil industry. Gelpke and McCormack are firm believers that the world's oil resources are in dangerously short supply, and that the price of oil is about to rise to previously unthinkable levels. The film also offers some possible solutions to the oil crisis by looking at alternative energy sources.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Peak Oil Film, 25 Mar 2008
By simonpeggfan (Maidenhead UK) - See all my reviews
  
This is a painstaking documentary about the frighteningly central role of oil in our lives. Made by two Swiss directors, one (Gelpke) with a background in anthropology, economics, war reporting, and science films, and the other (McCormack) who holds an honors degree in Environmental Policy and Management.
These two men make a documentary that manages to look at both sides of our oil needs and industry while not knocking our addictive behavior towards gasoline.

The film relies on interviews with notable academics, experts and advisors from across the political, corporate and economic spectrum. It has seems like there's no discernible political axe to grind - which makes it all the harder to ignore it's hard to ignore.

The focus of this all is our crude oil dependency, the manner in which access to oil is driving U.S foreign policy, the ubiquitous nature of oil in modern society, the lack of efficient alternatives to petroleum, and the concept of Peak Oil: that once world oil output reaches its maximum peak, recovery will plateau and then begin a permanent decline. Once this decline commences, all hell will break loose with the world economy. Depending on the experts, this decline could already be under way or it could be 20 years away, but it is generally accepted that it is on the horizon.

If you liked "An Inconvenient Truth", you'll be enthralled by this film.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introduction to oil related issues, 2 Sep 2009
By Mr. S. A. Blake (Birmingham, England) - See all my reviews
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If you want to know more about the role of oil in the developed world and if you want to know the truth about oil depletion (how much is left etc) then this is the ideal place to start. A lot of experts were chosen to be the talking heads such as Colin Campbell who has worked for numerous oil companies and is a member of ASPO (Association for the Study of Peak Oil and gas) and Matthew Simmons who is a successful energy investment banker.
The tone of the DVD is depressing throughout- oil is essential for most aspects of our existence and it will reach maximum production and subsequently decline soon. Energy alternatives are discussed and dismissed as unrealistic or too far in the future to count. I can't recommend this DVD as "entertaining" but it is a sobering introduction to what this century holds in store for the world- an energy crisis which no one has a clue how to solve.
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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars "Oil is the excrement of the devil", 1 Dec 2008
By Mr. Jan Tari "anomalocarus" (london) - See all my reviews
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thus it starts and you know immediately you're not in for a documentary but an opinion piece that damages its underlying message that oil is running out and things are going to get really bad. I happen to believe exactly what they are saying but I want the presentation of all relevant facts and not this patchwork stitched up to produce a particular picture.
This film consists of the speech taken from a number of interviews with oil experts, spliced together and shown with a large amount of entirely needless stock footage of cars buzzing around, robots doing things, etc. There are intercuts with those actually being interviewed. Ironically, all the interviews used are provided as extras in the DVD so you can skip the main film and get it from the horse's mouth. I recommend you do exactly this because you get more information more usefully presented and -- why I consider this not to be documentary -- you get it unfiltered. In the main film you are shown selected extracts from an interview with former OPEC Secretary-General Fadhil Chalabi, and those extracts suggest he has a rather different view of the matter then he actually does, as you realise when you watch the full and unedited interview. He really doesn't believe we are short of oil, and it was dishonest of the filmmakers not to make this clear.
Curiously there is almost no mention of environmental impact, and it really doesn't tell you very much that couldn't be presented better, and quicker.
It's not very good, and it's certainly no Inconvenient Truth. Considering the mess we're in, that's a huge failing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars We ALL must stop wasting OIL
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