Prime time BBC drama about West's oil dependency

newbonic

Energy related issues have certainly gone mainstream in the UK (and presumably Canada as it's a UK/Canadian production).

A 3 hour drama on at 9pm - 10:30 pm over 2 nights.

From the Daily Telegraph preview".....drama about the potentially disastrous consequences of the West’s dependency on oil – the price of crude was around $40 a barrel. Recently, it’s been over $140. Whatever else you end up thinking about this drama, you’ve at least got to admit that it’s timely."

It's got global warming, inuit, melting ice sheets, cynical oil industry barons spinning the news, etc. Plus the consequences of having to switch from oil "everything runs on oil...driving, flying, schools" says one of the main characters despairingly.
Lots of exposition about AGW and the impractically of running the world as it is without oil.

Dunno if you can get it anywhere else yet but descriptions are at: Burn Up: Oil on Troubled Waters (D Telegraph).

Twilight · Expert Joined: Mar 02, 2007 Posts: 2971 Location: UK

Watch the trailer on the production company's page.

(Bottom row, middle button)

Looks interesting. I will get a friend to make a recording seeing as I have no TV.

I don't understand the point of loading subsonic ammunition for an undefended target in the middle of a desert though.
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"The American people are watching the numbers climb higher and higher at the pump and they're waiting to see what the Congress will do." - George W Bush

mos6507

Wow. I didn't know you could say f*ck on the BBC.

Shocked

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Peak oil is sort of like a mental Everlasting Gobstopper, except it tastes like ass and you can't get it out of your mouth.

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Twilight · Expert Joined: Mar 02, 2007 Posts: 2971 Location: UK

I remember reading a newspaper interview with some American who said s*** and apologised, then was reassured it was OK. Surprised, s/he asked whether s/he was allowed to say s*** and whether it would be printed, and the interviewer assured him/her it would be. S/he was impressed. And so it was printed. Without the stars that I have to put in here.
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"The American people are watching the numbers climb higher and higher at the pump and they're waiting to see what the Congress will do." - George W Bush

kokoda · Heavy Crude Joined: Aug 24, 2006 Posts: 420

I hate it when people write s*** and f***.

The words are spelled s h i t and f u c k.

Peleg · Heavy Crude Joined: May 20, 2008 Posts: 391

It's a good thing they included some adulterous sex in there or nobody would go see it. People do not care about how the gas get's into those little pumps at the shiny little grocery stores. They are never going to care enough no matter how many movies are made about it. There is something about oil use that is in itself a denial of our humanity. That is why I suspect that many people upon finding out about peak oil and finally knowing it is real struggle with guilt, fear, rage, hopelessness.

How many of you would admit that you wish you had never known now that you do?

Peak oil is the problem and the solution. We are the cure for our own disease.

mos6507

newbonic

Well, the final 30 mins were about the hero coming into possession of geological scans that proved that the middle east had peaked (got from a rogue geologist), and the baddies (oil industry oligarchs and neocons - the usual liberal's suspects!) chasing him for the disk because they didn't want the world to have it confirmed that 'peak oil is now'! i.e. we're all doomed 1.

Wound up with a big expansion of coal (so AGW and we're all doomed 2) and nuclear, plus cynically token renewables efforts being agreed at a 'Kyoto 2 conference'.

Worth a watch if it's on a TV near you.

Nickel