Oil Storm : What The?
Last Night, we sat down and watched a docu-drama called Oil Storm. It has it's own entry in Wikipedia
Oil Storm was a docudrama by James Erskine and Caroline Levy portraying a future oil-shortage crisis in the United States. It originally aired on FX Networks on June 5, 2005, at 8 PM EST. The program was an attempt to depict what would happen if the highly oil-dependent country was suddenly faced with gasoline costing upwards of $7 and 8 per gallon (as opposed to the national average of around $2 per gallon when the show first aired).
The crisis arises from a hurricane wiping out an important pipeline in Louisiana, a tanker collision closing a busy port, terrorist attacks and tension with Saudi Arabia over the oil trade, and other fictional events. The program followed several fictional people, being portrayed by actors, in various situations (a couple that owned a mom-and-pop gas station, stock market and oil analysts, government officials, etc.), and includes a substantial amount of human drama.
What's freaky is that the events of Hurricane Katrina, its economic impact and the ensuing price increases nearly parallels the events in the movie. I guess all the facts were out there for ages, and it didn't take a rocket scientist to put it all together.
BTW - Some dude has posted a promo of the show that was running locally.
[listening to: Love Is (What I Say) - INXS ]
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