Oil Storm: Reality or Fiction?
Does the TV Movie hit closer to the truth than most would like to admit?
Tulsa, OK (PRWEB) June 9, 2005 -- The FX Network aired the TV movie ?Oil Storm? this past Sunday night. ?America?s lifeline has been severed? sets up the over all theme of this fictional movie that was shot in a documentary style.
It begins with a tropical storm that rips through the gulf coast and destroys not only homes and businesses of New Orleans, but also the drilling rigs just off of the coast, the refineries and the pipelines that oil tankers dock with to pump millions of barrels of oil. This destruction causes oil prices to immediately jump to $70 a barrel, then other problems occur, and eventually oil reaches $130 a barrel. This wreaks havoc on the stock market. Long lines of panic stricken people vie for gasoline as the trucking industry begins to shut down with gas prices rising above $7 per gallon. Store shelves empty as costs of transporting products and food are too high. Winter sets in and heating homes is far too expensive for many. Elderly and homeless deaths rise. Farmers loose subsidies to the cost of the military while nationwide frustration turns to riots and chaos.
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Oil has been called ?the life-blood of America.? What happens if it suddenly runs dry?
That was the question posed by the cable network, FX, in a recent made-for-television movie, ?Oil Storm.? Done in a ?mock-umentary? style, ?Oil Storm? depicts the consequences of America?s reliance on oil in a series of delectable ?what if? worst-case scenarios.
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