A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash - Film Screening

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March 21, 2009 - 10:00pm - March 22, 2009 - 12:00am

A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash

Free Film Screening Open to the Public

Sponsored by Washington County Peak Oil

Date: Saturday March 21, 2009
Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: Beaverton Library, Conference Room B
12375 SW 5th Street, Beaverton, OR 97005
Phone: 971-409-3611

Crude Awakening, produced and directed by award-winning European journalists and filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, tells the story of how our civilization’s addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. Compelling, intelligent, and highly entertaining, the film visits with the world’s top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion – our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled.tes) (Playing time approx. 86 minutes)

Discussion, questions and answers, to follow.