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Any one catch the movie Oil Storm on F/X last night?
The movie depicts a hypothetical disaster that leads to a difinite SHTF scenario. A category IV hurricane wipes out most of our oil refining ability in the Gulf Coast. Terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia further limit the # of barrels we can import. Gas soars to over $8 a gallon. The trucking industry goes on strike because of the prices and the new national speed limit of 50 mph. Meat packing /processing plants shut down because the meat is rotting, people can not afford to heat their homes and are dying of hypothermia, industry comes to a stand still and unemployment rises to record highs.
We turn to Russia to bail us out with oil, but we are outbid by China...this crushes the american moral, as China is depicted as the new economic superpower. Anarchy reigns and a police state is declared in major cities. The government decides to cut federal farm aid in order to support the troops in the middle east, which then leads to the nation's farm industry not being able to bring in the harvest of '06.....
Interesting show...don't know how plausible it is, but the moral of the show was that americans rely too heavily on foreign oil to run our country, and that our economy is extremely fragile and will collapse if we don't stop putting oil as our #1 priority.......Makes you think.
The movie depicts a hypothetical disaster that leads to a difinite SHTF scenario. A category IV hurricane wipes out most of our oil refining ability in the Gulf Coast. Terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia further limit the # of barrels we can import. Gas soars to over $8 a gallon. The trucking industry goes on strike because of the prices and the new national speed limit of 50 mph. Meat packing /processing plants shut down because the meat is rotting, people can not afford to heat their homes and are dying of hypothermia, industry comes to a stand still and unemployment rises to record highs.
We turn to Russia to bail us out with oil, but we are outbid by China...this crushes the american moral, as China is depicted as the new economic superpower. Anarchy reigns and a police state is declared in major cities. The government decides to cut federal farm aid in order to support the troops in the middle east, which then leads to the nation's farm industry not being able to bring in the harvest of '06.....
Interesting show...don't know how plausible it is, but the moral of the show was that americans rely too heavily on foreign oil to run our country, and that our economy is extremely fragile and will collapse if we don't stop putting oil as our #1 priority.......Makes you think.
