The demand for energy has risen relentlessly over the last 150 years in line with industrial development and population growth.
And as economies of developing countries like China and India contin...
The demand for energy has risen relentlessly over the last 150 years in line with industrial development and population growth.
And as economies of developing countries like China and India continue to grow, it is predicted demand will rise by a further 50% by 2030.
President Bush has already warned the United States that it is too reliant on oil, often from "unstable" countries, and that it must find alternatives.
Geologists are searching in Arctic Alaska, around the Falkland Islands and under the oceans for the last remaining sizeable reserves of oil.
But what will happen if the fuel crisis is not resolved?
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Blending drama and documentary, the IF series returns with a film investigating a scenario many experts fear will come true.
When the cheap oil we depend on starts to run out, we may not be able to take anything for granted any more.
DRAMA ______ It is 2016 and the world is in crisis.
Global supplies of oil cannot keep up with soaring demand and the price of petrol is going through the roof.
The oil companies are in a desperate race to find any remaining oil reserves but what happens if there is no more out there?
Combining expert interviews with a fictional story line, the drama-documentary examines how our lives will change as the price of fuel starts to spiral out of control.
The film interweaves the story of Jess, an exploration geologist working for an international oil company, with the impact of the fuel crisis on her parents back home in Minneapolis.
Instability in the Middle East has caused an "oil shock" and the price of crude is rising day by day.
At the start of the film it is around $85 (£45) a barrel - in spring 2006 it is about $65 (£34) - but by the end of the drama the price has climbed to $160 (£85).
As the story unfolds, expert interviewees - including Paul Domjan, Former Energy Security Adviser at the US Dept of Defence, oil analyst Matt Simmons and the legendary former Saudi Arabian Minister of Oil, Sheikh Yamani - explain how the crisis will have an effect on every part of our lives.
We will not just be paying a lot more - £2.35 per litre or $5.88 per US gallon - to fill up our cars, we will be charged much higher prices for food, heating and light.
Long distance travel will become increasingly expensive and we will even think carefully before using the car for what we used to regard as routine trips to the shops.
RECESSION _________ As the economy goes into recession, Jess's parents find their world collapsing around them.
Her father is the proud owner of a sport utility vehicle (SUV), but he has to put it up for sale as the running costs are just too high.
The daily trip to the shopping mall becomes prohibitively expensive and then, as recession starts to bite, he loses his job as a truck driver with a haulage company.
Meanwhile Jess's London-based oil company has been given permission to drill the first wildcat oil well in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
It is a controversial decision as the vast stretch of tundra in the north east corner of Alaska is the last untouched wilderness in the whole of North America.
Back in Minneapolis, Jess's father becomes the victim of a road rage attack, all because of the price of petrol.
He is beaten up and seriously injured after an argument in the queue at a gas station.
As one of the experts concludes: "It is very important for us to think today about what we can do to move away from the oil age, to build a more environmentally sustainable economy without all the political and environmental problems that come with oil.
"And hopefully we'll develop a policy to move away from oil today, rather than waiting until a story like this in 2016 forces us to give up oil."
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@curingaging00 funny ,really funny lookk you are really funnny from the 1900 to 1950 ,the world oil came from indonesia ,Romania had oil from 1909 ,to post ww2,the soviets toke the oil in the 50's,so in the 1960 's the romanian oil was gone,now we import oil The ideea is that the oil did not came alwais from the Midle EAST THE ARABS DON'T INVEST IN GREEN TECH.BECAUSE THEY KNOW that there is a lot of oil there
Oil will run out. we cant continuously run on this resource. its very finite.
we need an energy source that doesn't run out. that has alot of punch to it like oil. as of now renewable energies arn't so good, but they've made lots of progress and still lots of progress yet to go. when these renewables become more efficent and plentiful, they will power the world.
just because as of now we have 250 years of oil doesnt mean theres really 250 years. that's based on our current consumption rate.
the industries and population are still booming rapidly. so we really don't have that many reserves left. and it won't take till we run totally out of oil for there to be an oil chrisis. ever heard of "peak of oil" you should look it up.
Yes there will be oil left for hundreds of years to come, I agree with you there. The problem is that the oil companies will have to drill deeper and deeper for less and less of the said oil. Long before the finite amount of oil our planet has to offer runs dry, it will become economically invalid to drill for it so theyll be forced to stop. At this point there might as well not be a single drop more oil out there, since any that is will be beyond our reach.
i don't agree with you for over 100years with drilling of oil there were problems but the engineers solved the problems if there is oil they will drill it,they already reached a great depth 5 miles or more i assure you that your great nephew will drive on gasoline everyone governments to avoid desaster and social unrest will make something ,but they do not no electric car no reduction on oil use ,nothing because they know that there is huge cantity of oil there and it can be drilled
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lookk you are really funnny
from the 1900 to 1950 ,the world oil came from indonesia
,Romania had oil from 1909 ,to post ww2,the soviets toke
the oil in the 50's,so in the 1960 's the romanian oil
was gone,now we import oil
The ideea is that the oil did not came alwais from the Midle EAST
THE ARABS DON'T INVEST IN GREEN TECH.BECAUSE THEY KNOW that there is a lot of oil there
we need an energy source that doesn't run out. that has alot of punch to it like oil.
as of now renewable energies arn't so good, but they've made lots of progress and still lots of progress yet to go. when these renewables become more efficent and plentiful, they will power the world.
the industries and population are still booming rapidly. so we really don't have that many reserves left.
and it won't take till we run totally out of oil for there to be an oil chrisis. ever heard of "peak of oil" you should look it up.
for over 100years with drilling of oil there were problems
but the engineers solved the problems
if there is oil they will drill it,they already reached a great
depth 5 miles or more
i assure you that your great nephew will drive on gasoline
everyone governments to avoid desaster and social unrest will make something ,but they do not
no electric car no reduction on oil use ,nothing
because they know that there is huge cantity of oil there and it can be drilled