The Oil Crash (2006)

	Also Known As: A Crude Awakening
	Year of first release: 2006
	Director: Basil Gelpke, Raymond McCormack
	Actors: -
	Country: CH, D
	Genre: Documentary
	Conditions of visioning: 20.05.2015, SD VOD, 11" computer screen
Synopsis: Of the importance of oil in our modern society.
Review: This documentary fulfilled my expectations, i.e. it is informative about the current status of knowledge on our dependency to oil, and the status of the world reserves. It is not too alarmist (it wold be easy to be) and on the other hand manages to avoid showing interviews of industrials who will tell you that oil will last forever. Well, we see some flashbacks of such sayings in the 80's, but nobody can say that anymore nowadays. I hadn't thought about the problem in a long time, but now I wonder again: oil reserves will for sure be depleted in 100 years, maybe 50, and at some point before that time people/governments/corporations will realize it and there will be consequences, big ones. It struck me when one interviewed raised the point that our grandchildren may never travel by plane. Somebody will have to find an alternative at some point, but in any case we will have to dramatically change our way of life, especially in the USA where one quarter of the World oil is consumed, to a point that cities (and the whole country) are structured around cars and oil (everybody commutes for more than an hour every day) making it impossible to transition to a public transport system like we have in Europe. Finally, I think that a solution could be found if one invested 4 trillion dollars in research on the topic, or even 10% of that, instead of spending it on military cost for a war in the Middle-East to secure more oil.
Rating: 5 /10