Back to "Crude Impact" -- I'd like to see it. I do not have cable TV or Dish.

I do notice that some films like "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Why We Fight" can be rented as DVDs at some movie rental stores. Netflix rents A.I.T.

Is "Crude Impact" mostly another introduction to Peak Oil for those who do not understand it yet?

Not that that would be a bad thing. Coming at it from different perspectives at different times can help to engage more people in this important discussion.

Crude Impact is playing around at several film festivals. You can check the CrudeImpact.com website for the latest showings. It is also available on DVD at the site.

Chris Vernon has an in-depth review of the film here on The Oil Drum.

Chris calls the film "terrific," and then says that one of the keys is, "its accessibility to someone with no prior exposure to the story of oil."

I think it also helps those of us with deeper understanding of oil by helping frame the story in a very broad perspective.