I watched it too; absolute crap. I could have thrown together a better plot in an hour. And it was so far removed from how the government (and the public) would truly act in such a situation that it was practically a comedy.
(I was especially amused when oil prices tripled yet pump prices jumped somewhere around 425%.)
BTW, how come none of the scenes depicted in the PR photos from the first post in this thread actually were in the movie?
That is a bloody good question since with the exception of the photo of NYMEX floor traders, all the photos were taken from the promo website for 'Oil Storm'.