I think most people in the world hear “Oil” and think “That’s just gasoline” and if cheap oil started to run out they would just drive less. This is not the case, as presented in the documentary A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash, the world is addicted to cheap affordable oil, and the bad news is, it’s not going to be cheap forever.
This film presents the idea that as peak-oil is reached the price per barrel is going to increase dramatically, affecting everything from transportation, to food, clothes, plastics, housing, everything. After watching this I started noticing how addicted to affordable oil the world is. Even coming from a background of energy conservation and alternate fuels, this film really changed the way I look at how much of society is built on petro-chemicals and what would happen if oil were to go away. I recommend everyone watch this film to understand the how people use oil and the importance of energy independance.