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OIL APOCALYPSE
A New Documentary from Filmmaker Martin Kent

November 6, 2007 - This week, the price of crude oil is trading at a shocking $96 a barrel. By year’s end, analysts predict petroleum will reach $100. And it’s not going to stop there. The world we’ve created runs on oil. But energy experts say the world is running out of oil. Much faster than previously thought. Demand will continue to outpace supplies, shortages are inevitable, and the price will only continue to rise -- causing a ripple effect of disastrous economic, social and political consequences.

On Tuesday night, November 13th, (at 11 p.m. EST/PST – 10 p.m. C), the History Channel will present Megadisasters: Oil Apocalypse, a documentary that Los Angeles-based filmmaker Martin Kent is calling “a wake up call,” about the world’s energy crisis. “We can no longer count on getting all the gasoline ( and all the things we use oil for ) we need – and there’s no plan B.”

By plan B, Kent is referring to a coordinated system of alternative energies laid out in his film, that could replace our addiction and dependence on oil. It’s long been known that oil is a finite, non-renewable resource, that pollutes the environment, and now mankind is coming to realize that it is also most likely causing climate change. “Yet government leaders keep proposing alternative energy plans that would be slowly implemented over the next few decades. That will be too late,” says Kent. As “Oil Apocalypse” points out, renewable, clean energies like solar and wind currently account for less than 1% of our power. Meanwhile, demand for oil is increasing. Much faster than previously anticipated. With China and India rapidly industrializing, creating an energy-hungry middle class, demand for oil will increase from the world’s current consumption of 84 million barrels a day, to 100 million barrels within the next 5 years. Unfortunately, while oil producers and refiners are scrambling to develop new techniques and sources of production, as yet they have not developed anything of proven value or significance to meet that demand.

“Oil Apocalypse” presents a terrifying set of of scenarios. True to the laws of supply and demand, we are fast approaching the breaking point, when the imbalance could destabilize the economies and infrastructures of virtually every nation on the planet. In filmmaker Kent’s documentary, some of the world’s most respected energy experts, financial analysts and political leaders are warning of dire consequences. A deadly scramble for the basic necessities of life. Neighbor against neighbor, nation against nation – perhaps even World War III................

The scedule here in So Cal for Dish TV list this program ( Oil Apocaylpse ) at 8-9PM, showing on " The History Channel " 120 under the heading of " Mega Disasters ", and it will show again in the early morning hours of the 14th on this same channel.