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Sunday, August 28, 2005

Yikes.
Posted by Jill | 5:02 PM

Found in a comment at Americablog...this is positively prescient:


Oil Storm

Oil Storm examines what happens when a Category 6 hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico slams into Louisiana, crushing the city of New Orleans and crippling the vital pipeline for refined oil that is Port Fouchon. It examines the ripple effect of that event and the ensuing cascade of disasters associated with it, through the eyes of public officials, a family in Texas who owns a gas station, an EMS worker in Boston who has to deal with a brutal winter, and a ranching family in South Dakota who have their subsidies completely taken away and question whether we need oil or food to survive.


The rest of the synopsis of this fX documentary is here. It paints a pretty optimistic picture of Americans rising to the occasion, but given how Americans are perfectly willing to sacrifice the lives of young Americans in order to keep driving Ford Excursions and Hummers, somehow I don't think that would reflect in real life.
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