The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil

[JohneeGnosis]

great video !!

[USAHavana]

Castro dupes so many morons, especially the eager little progressive minds, who suffer from narcisistic martyrdom and/or social repression. Lenin called them "useful idiots," those people living in liberal democracies who by giving moral and material support to a totalitarian ideology in effect were braiding the rope that would hang them. Why people who enjoyed freedom and prosperity worked passionately to destroy both is a fascinating question, one still with us today.

[USAHavana]

Most of the oil is then sold for hard currency, bringing in cash. Cuba also charges Venezuela $30 per patient visit, meaning a $1,000 daily haul per doctor, but the doctors never see any of it. Pathetic how fools support SLAVERY,

[USAHavana]

Cuba's oil-for-doctors deal is MODERN slavery .What the doctors endure are not just bad conditions common inside Cuba. The doctors are instruments of a money-making racket to benefit the very Castro regime that has ruined Cuba's economy. That's because their labor is tied to an exchange:

Castro takes 100,000 barrels of oil each day from Venezuela's state oil company in exchange for uncompensated Cuban SLAVE labor. 

[derman077]

I like how this video didn't show anything about how Cuba survived peak oil.

[nagaslrac]

We'll all end up having to eat each other.

Like in that movie... We Ended Up Having to Eat Each Other.

[USAHavana]

Cuba is a disaster The Cuban economy has always been in shambles since Castro named himself king. However, in 1994, the rafter crisis opened a population escape valve ... The Cuban-Americans in Miami support the entire population of Cuba and its decimated economy. To use this IGNORANT video as a litmus on our impending collapse is beyond reckless. Unless Americans migrate north and we can live off our Canadian relatives. Good LORD! Lets get serious, CUBA IS WHAT NOT TO DO! Ask Venezuelans!!

[MrEnergyCzar]

Cuba survived Peak Oil by allocating land to the people to grow food locally. North Korea didn't survive Peak Oil, they've been starving.....

[PattyWhomperOFFICIAL]

wow now that i watched this video it told me how they did it! [if it wasn't cut off... lol] p.s. vegans are a type of furry...

[cestrasegall]

thank you for uploading this - saw the entire film a way back and its truly great and inspirational!!!

[lutherdriggers]

just watched this film, very inspiring, will distribute. not a political film, not about communism, no policy blame (except that they were affected by the embargo). just about grassroots efforts and gov't help to recover from their energy crisis. compares their systems with conventional farming, well researched, gives good numbers, statistics, insightful interviews. see amazon's website for good and bad reviews.

[firecatgreg]

If most you morons actually watched the entire video you'd have sense to make a reasonable comment. This is just a short clip. I own the video and it's pretty awesome. That being said, it's not necessarily the solution for everyone. They were communists before and after and had to adapt to a forced energy shortage. As would any "expanding economy" that lost it's capacity to expand. Sound familiar, look at the current death spiral in the West. It's not about communism, it's about adapting.

[IndependantCuban]

I am all for producing ethenol from cane and organics, in order to impact the US' tramsportaion sector and creating more self sustaining communities. Cuba has made some steps forward, but they are due to the regimes intolerance of freedom and democracy. It isolated itself and imprisoned its citizens on the island. In a totalitarian government they control the seeds and their distribution. In Brazil they are free and have reduce big oils impact with ethenol. Cuba is no energy utopia!

[sabado452]

1) Totalitarian CORPORATIONS - like Monsanto - control seeds and their distribution

2) Bio fuel production causes the rise food prices and endangeres the hungry

3) Use of bio fuel is a remedy that might delay the development of REAL alternatives to fuel combustion

[tslc04]

if you are worried about rising food prices due to bio fuel. then you should look into becoming a vegetarian. eating meat is the most energy intensive thing in the world. 1 person on a meat diet can feet 20 on a vegetarian one. even in a small country like vietnam almost 3 millions tons of corn and soy is imported just for livestock feed.

[duck24x]

@tslc04 Amen!

[duck24x]

@sabado452 Amen!

[tmaxb2006]

I hope it right and that its happening. if it is we should do all we can to publicize the situation and anything else to support the dream. It seems to me that some commentators are like turkeys voting for xmas. The fact is that peak is a problem that will hit as sure as next hurricane. How BAD IT IS IS UP TO US.

Would the commentator on that hates so much rather put up with the oil wars and collateral damage. Where Next? Iran? Indonesia? Any Number of south American States? China? Russia?

[kiriakufromcyprus]

Thats inspiring, cuba maybe poor but it has health care and education systems that put America and my country Australia to shame. this provides hope to the third world that it can survive the imminent economic crisis by peak oil

[im4victory]

They are still in a famin. Where did you get they are producing anything? They have no economy in Cuba. They don't use electricity because they have none they have more blackouts than they have electricity.

They plant what?

They hang there clothes out to dry because they have no other means of drying them, they live in deplorable conditions.

[centauriblue2]

The one sing I like the must about this video,

is how merciful short, it was.

AND!..coming Soon....!!!! How NORTH KOREA, Manege TO......

extinguish all the lights and cut in half

their population. specially all those pesky

little kids..and save their rations for the

god of the people. hurra!!

Yow see,..some more chit WI can learn...... YEaaaaaaa........! candy red cummis

[peacenik2]

This is a fantastic DVD. The Power of Community Indeed!! We can Save the Planet ourselves, we just have to stop listening to all those war mongerers who love to think they can Rule the World or something. Well Done Cuba!! I hear these days you have loads of cars running on Hydrogen Yes!! WATER!! Yee Haa!!

[badnewswade]

Eat your hearts out imperialists! The eeeevil CAAAAAAAMMUNISTS are coming out on top, MWAHAAHAHAHAAAAAA!

[omalleytones]

I might be wrong but Cuba started this turn-around after USSR left and since then the cuban society and culture has changed towards this comunity system.

[mummygirl82]

Can we please follow this example in the United States- or are we simply going to go on being controlled and ruled by the dominant-stinking-rich- reign of Bush... or so to speak