My opinion was that Crude Impact was on balance crudely unbalanced and the type of inflamatory show that plays on anger, ignorance, and emotion. While James Wood seemed pretty well schooled on Peak Oil the shrill, repugnant cheap shot artist Antonio Juhasz parading as an oil expert (hawking her new book) was really beyond a bummer. Her incessant pandering to the anti-oil crowd totally destroyed any opportunity to get the P.O. word out to any reasonable soul wanting to hear the truth. I certainly don't take the big oil companies as corporate angels but they aren't always the evil satan either. The show had about 20 minutes of reasonable balanced factual information on P.O. but the majority of the nearly 4 hours was anti oil company propaganda and Link TV hawking any kind of wares to raise a few shekels.
This kind of show plays well to the nut case crowd but few beyond in spite of the Moderator and Woods appearing fairly reasonable. Hienberg was fairly visible, Simmons and Deffeyes make limited appearences. Juhasz was beyond smug throwing out the typical crap used to incite the anti oil crowd. I.e. did you know only 47% of the cost of a gallon of gas is related to the cost of oil!!! OMG! burn the greedy bastards at the stake. Her implication was that consumers are being perpetually raped by the oil companies. What about taxes, transportation, and refining, aren't they important costs too? Take a look at virtually any product sold and you will find damn few with a Cost of Goods sold over 25% much less 47% plus the related taxes, and conversion costs.
I was really looking forward to this show as I hoped it would be a vehicle for promoting both a realistic initiation to Peak Oil as well as platform for an honest discussion of what we should do for mitigation. What I got was a witch hunt by the nut case crowd with just enough P.O. thrown in to bait and switch the viewer into the vortex of Oil Company propanda bashing. If this is supposed to be a rational legitimate offset to the MSM we are in freaking trouble.