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Essex Land Rover Man on May 31, 2006 - 1:18am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
Yup, watched and taped it. Thought it pretty good overall for the lay public. Anybody on this site automatically knows a lot more than the program. It did have Matt Simmons on it and Yergin and his ilk were ignored. For someone who has never heard of Peak Oil or possible impending oil shortages, hopefully it will spark their curiosity and search on the internet and find out there is a lot more complexity to the program.

Unfortunately, most adults are only interested in the outside world when it interferes with their immediate world. My neighbour could watch this program and not think that it affects them. If oil shortages started in 3 years time, I doubt if they would get the connection between those shortages and this program. There are very few people able or willing to see beyond their nose.

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MetaMeme on May 31, 2006 - 3:55am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Overall quite effective. However more info on Peak Oil could have been useful.

The ending was a bit weak - "We will be OK after a bit of a fuel shortage"

The date of 2016 was also a bit too remote ... the scenarios outlined could happen much sooner.

Overall, I think that the average viewer will come away believing that no real problem exists ... just possibly a short term glitch in the remote future.

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