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Oil Storm! Those Clever Liberals Strike Again!
Using ‘worst case scenario’ events Co Writer Caroline Levy went beyond the bounds of belief, when she had a teen aged character say: “God doesn’t want us to use oil.”
This Michael Moore type ‘Mocumentary’, portrays greedy Americans finally get a ‘come-upance’ as oil supplies are interrupted, ships collide and oil refineries are sabotaged.
Gas lines are long, rioting breaks out and looters abound as the ‘ugly americans’ fall apart at the seams.
The tired old liberal mantra of conservation and limiting supplies and lifestyles dug an even deeper layer of disgrace by bringing in two families to ‘personalize’ the plight of middle class Americans.
In doing so, the film depicted Roosevelt, FDR, as the promised land, the family farmer at the mercy of government subsidies to agriculture and the ‘church’ solidly behind the eco-nuts as they pray for inclusion in the ecological litany.
This would be truly amusing if not for the obvious ploy that the Left Wing is courting the religious fundamental right in a way as obscene and obvious as an extended middle finger.
One should have expected it to be a British producer and co-writer; Europeans are so green with jealousy, they stoop to any level.
Well, to each his own…
OIL STORM!
“NEW YORK, June 3 (Reuters) - Think $55 a barrel oil is bad? Wait till a hurricane knocks out a U.S. pipeline and a port at the same time that militants are killing hostages in Saudi Arabia, sending oil prices over $150 a barrel.
That's the premise of "Oil Storm," a television docudrama set to premiere in the United States on Sunday. The movie uses exaggerated real life events and fictional characters to examine America's dependence on oil and the havoc a major disruption in supply could wreak on ordinary people.
The movie depicts -- albeit in the extreme -- what energy markets have spent much of the past year fretting about: hurricanes that can rip apart oil infrastructure and war and turbulence in the Middle East, which have driven crude prices to record highs.
And the writers aim to show why the intricacies of oil rigs and oil reserves should be as much a concern for average Americans, with their taste for gas guzzling SUVs and summer road trips, as they are for traders at the New York Mercantile Exchange.
"Everything is so interconnected that anything that happens in Saudi Arabia or China will have an impact on oil, and therefore an impact on you or I in terms of what happens at the pump," said Caroline Levy, its British producer and co-writer.
Levy is well aware that the movie could be criticized for fanning fears of a doomsday scenario, similar to last year's Hollywood blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow", in which New York was flooded by a tidal wave before being frozen solid, in a series of events that defied the laws of physics.
Few specialists expect a chain of events to occur any time soon that would lead to oil at $150 a barrel, although investment bank Goldman Sachs did send shockwaves into the market in March when it warned oil prices could hit $105 a barrel under a "super-spike" scenario.
"None of what we're saying is so out of the realms of belief," said Levy, adding the movie is based on numerous interviews with energy experts and only a slight exaggeration of past events. "The purpose is to show how vulnerable the infrastructure of the oil industry in America is."
In the movie, which will be aired on Fox's FX network, a powerful hurricane reminiscent of last year's Ivan smashes into Port Fourchon, Louisiana, cutting off a majority of the nation's oil imports and crippling production in the Gulf of Mexico.
The U.S. administration turns to its ally and top world exporter Saudi Arabia, which boosts supplies but then is forced to deal with an unfolding crisis of its own, involving "Shoot first, ask questions later" security forces and hostages.
The movie depicts panic spreading across oil markets, sending oil prices above $150 a barrel, while cars across the United States line up outside gas stations, and everyone's lives are thrown into disarray.
"At the end of the movie, prices go back to pretty much what they were at the start of the year," said Levy. "But the film is basically saying 'What we can we learn from this?'"
the incomparable amicus...
Using ‘worst case scenario’ events Co Writer Caroline Levy went beyond the bounds of belief, when she had a teen aged character say: “God doesn’t want us to use oil.”
This Michael Moore type ‘Mocumentary’, portrays greedy Americans finally get a ‘come-upance’ as oil supplies are interrupted, ships collide and oil refineries are sabotaged.
Gas lines are long, rioting breaks out and looters abound as the ‘ugly americans’ fall apart at the seams.
The tired old liberal mantra of conservation and limiting supplies and lifestyles dug an even deeper layer of disgrace by bringing in two families to ‘personalize’ the plight of middle class Americans.
In doing so, the film depicted Roosevelt, FDR, as the promised land, the family farmer at the mercy of government subsidies to agriculture and the ‘church’ solidly behind the eco-nuts as they pray for inclusion in the ecological litany.
This would be truly amusing if not for the obvious ploy that the Left Wing is courting the religious fundamental right in a way as obscene and obvious as an extended middle finger.
One should have expected it to be a British producer and co-writer; Europeans are so green with jealousy, they stoop to any level.
Well, to each his own…
OIL STORM!
“NEW YORK, June 3 (Reuters) - Think $55 a barrel oil is bad? Wait till a hurricane knocks out a U.S. pipeline and a port at the same time that militants are killing hostages in Saudi Arabia, sending oil prices over $150 a barrel.
That's the premise of "Oil Storm," a television docudrama set to premiere in the United States on Sunday. The movie uses exaggerated real life events and fictional characters to examine America's dependence on oil and the havoc a major disruption in supply could wreak on ordinary people.
The movie depicts -- albeit in the extreme -- what energy markets have spent much of the past year fretting about: hurricanes that can rip apart oil infrastructure and war and turbulence in the Middle East, which have driven crude prices to record highs.
And the writers aim to show why the intricacies of oil rigs and oil reserves should be as much a concern for average Americans, with their taste for gas guzzling SUVs and summer road trips, as they are for traders at the New York Mercantile Exchange.
"Everything is so interconnected that anything that happens in Saudi Arabia or China will have an impact on oil, and therefore an impact on you or I in terms of what happens at the pump," said Caroline Levy, its British producer and co-writer.
Levy is well aware that the movie could be criticized for fanning fears of a doomsday scenario, similar to last year's Hollywood blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow", in which New York was flooded by a tidal wave before being frozen solid, in a series of events that defied the laws of physics.
Few specialists expect a chain of events to occur any time soon that would lead to oil at $150 a barrel, although investment bank Goldman Sachs did send shockwaves into the market in March when it warned oil prices could hit $105 a barrel under a "super-spike" scenario.
"None of what we're saying is so out of the realms of belief," said Levy, adding the movie is based on numerous interviews with energy experts and only a slight exaggeration of past events. "The purpose is to show how vulnerable the infrastructure of the oil industry in America is."
In the movie, which will be aired on Fox's FX network, a powerful hurricane reminiscent of last year's Ivan smashes into Port Fourchon, Louisiana, cutting off a majority of the nation's oil imports and crippling production in the Gulf of Mexico.
The U.S. administration turns to its ally and top world exporter Saudi Arabia, which boosts supplies but then is forced to deal with an unfolding crisis of its own, involving "Shoot first, ask questions later" security forces and hostages.
The movie depicts panic spreading across oil markets, sending oil prices above $150 a barrel, while cars across the United States line up outside gas stations, and everyone's lives are thrown into disarray.
"At the end of the movie, prices go back to pretty much what they were at the start of the year," said Levy. "But the film is basically saying 'What we can we learn from this?'"
the incomparable amicus...
