Crude Impact - The Oil Companies

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Run time: 09:04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqasS-yjA4k   Posted on YouTube: February 01, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: February 03, 2008 By DU Member: Subdivisions Views on DU: 512

 
With all the talk the past few days on yet another round of astronomical oil company profits, I thought it fitting to post this excerpt from the award-winning documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwyAA2Zt8CI">Crude Impact, a film which has been an official selection at over twenty film festivals around the world and has won numerous awards, including the prestigious Social Justice Award at the 22nd Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the prestigious International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam, and three awards at the Sacramento International Film Festival - Best Documentary, Best Editing, and Best Environmental Film, and was nominated for Best World Popular Scientific Film at the 42nd International Popular Scientific and Documentary Film Festival in Olomouc, Czech Republic.

This excerpt documents how oil companies exploit those who happen to get in their way and the environmental and cultural damage they leave in their wake, all in the name of those record profits.

BTW, be sure to watch the whole film. It features some DU favorites like Air America's Thom Hartmann who is also the author of the book "The Last Hours of Sunlight" and Democracy Now's Amy Goodman. Such a critically acclaimed film is sure to be worth your time, isn't it?

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1. Thanks for posting this excerpt, Texas Explorer.

K&R
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Peace,

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2. thank you for posting, such voices keep hope alive in this dark age of mankind nt

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3. Ummm...you realize, don't you, that YOU are partially responsible

for these atrocities?

YOU have the blood of every life that has ever been taken during your lifetime. All those lives just so you can drive around in your oil-consuming vehicle collecting your oil-based consumer goods.

You owe your comfortable life to the death and destruction wrought by the same people that supply the gasoline that passes through that nozzle you hold in your hand as you fill your tank, which may as well be the blood of some poor soul who was unfortunate enough to live atop an oil deposit.

And so am I.

You want to ignore my post? You want to ignore YOUR part in this devestation? Then you force me to put it in your face! What do you have to say for yourselves?