The Oil Drum | A Discussion of Friedman's "Gas Pump Geopolitics"

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Alaskan Pete on April 30, 2006 - 9:30pm

Bob, you want prescient and scary, watch the opening 5 minutes of "The Road Warrior"...the old second part installment of the Mel Gibson "Mad Max" trilogy. It starts with newsreel style clips of the fall of civilization/global war as oil supplies dry up. Great film too, if you enjoy action movies.

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pstarr on May 1, 2006 - 1:20am

As i recall the very next scene has the protanganist, (notice I don't call him the "hero") a young mel gibson, fighting and killing for a rusty hubcap's worth of gasoline. very prophetic. The entire movie concerns a oil-tanker load of . . . sand

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