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NEW YORK- Think $55 a barrel oil is bad? Wait till a hurricane knocks out a U.S. pipeline and a port at the same time that militants are killing hostages in Saudi Arabia, sending oil prices over $150 a barrel. That's the premise of "Oil Storm," a television docudrama set to premiere in the United States on Sunday. The movie uses exaggerated real life events and fictional characters to examine America's dependence on oil and the havoc a major disruption in supply could wreak on ordinary people. The movie depicts -- albeit in the extreme -- what energy markets have...

It sounds like leftist TV run wild.

"Oil Storm", a fictionalized docudrama, deals with the aftermath of a severe hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, crippling both oil production and oil importation (15% of our national daily supply if memory serves) and its economic and social consequences for the nation at large. The government's inability to make up this shortfall, due to political considerations, limited global supplies, and several additional disasters make for riveting viewing, even for those on this forum who believe energy supplies are inexhaustible. FX is available on satellite t.v. and many cable providers; for those of you who still rely on over the...

With crude oil prices already at record levels, a hurricane targeted the heart of America's oil and refinery operations Sunday, shutting down an estimated 1 million barrels of daily production and threatening to curtail refining activity in the region. Katrina, a Category 5 storm expected to strike near New Orleans early Monday, was churning through the Gulf of Mexico. The area is crucial to the U.S. energy infrastructure _ offshore oil and gas production, import terminals, pipeline networks and numerous refining operations throughout southern Louisiana and Mississippi. [. . .] The U.S. has ample crude oil supplies, even if major...

Energy apocalypse is one big worst-case scenario“It probably will be viewed as the worst disaster on American soil, ever.” No, that’s not a review of the new FX Networks movie, “Oil Storm,” though it could be. Instead, it’s a comment from one of the characters in the film about the seemingly endless stream of worst-case scenarios the film ties together to create an energy cataclysm in 2005 and 2006. The movie had its initial airing Sunday, June 5, 2005, in back-to-back broadcasts. The film was designed as a mock-umentary, looking back on the series of catastrophes that piled on top...