I was just watching the coverage of Hurricane Katrina and this movie popped into my head. I know the movie is far fetched but it plants a seed a fear in the back of your mind. Lets hope this movie says a movie and not become reality.
shareIt's almost creepy to think that when this movie came out, you put it in the back of your mind thinking, "I doubt this will happen to us."
Well, guess what? Right before Labor Day weekend 2005, here it is.
I never thought that this was ridiculous. I am from Mississippi, and I have a lot of family that "lived" in New Orleans. The gulf coast of MIssissippi and Louisiana had been warned and the national government had been warned for decades about something like this happening. And for those of you who are asking is "Oil Storm" happening. Well here in Mississippi and Louisiana it is. The guy up there that said that 70 dollars per barrel were just like the "mockumentery" Oil Storm. It's very weird but that guy was right. It is happening like it did in that show. It started out at 70$ per barrel and went up to 153$ a barrel, if I am not mistaken, and that is in the neighborhood of 8.50$ a gallon. I don't expect gas to hit 8.50 a gallon, but here in Mississippi today it was 3.59$ in some parts, and in some parts of Georgia, it was 5.87$ - 6.-15$ a gallon. It's unreal, but I expected stuff like this to happen. Back to "Oil Storm". The name of the hurricane in Oil Storm was Katrina, and was a CAT4 hurricane. The weird thing is, is that this CAT5 Hurricane Katrina, was only supposed to reach CAT4 level. Think about it? It's a little to coincidental. I don't know. I also read on cnn website that FEMA had did a mock incident preparedness bull whatever to prepare for something like this. Well that was two years ago. Last year they were preparing, this year implementing. What do you expect everyone to think? Did they really know? That's for them to know and us to always wonder about. Feel free to contact me at my email address: [email protected]. I am still without power at my house, but I do have computer access at work. If you email me, I will write you back, just let me know where you got my email.
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Saw the movie. Thought about it when news of the hurricane first started.
As someone else put it, They did a movie about a storm in an area that is known for such storms. How can anyone even think it is related to the movie, or that there is some type of connection. I mean really, the movie was 3 months ago. Do you think they looked into the crystal ball, or maybe they knew by the phase of the moon and the wind speed that evening? Gimme a break.
Blaming Bush? What would you do? What could he do up until this point?
What crap.
The people in NO knew it was coming.
Some left. Many didnt. I have no pity for someone who doesnt have the regard for the safety of themselves and their family to get the hell out of the way from a category 5 hurricane.
The sheep going to the SuperDoom were told to take food and drink with them. Many probably thought they would be given food, just like they get a welfare check every month. Maybe this will motivate them to get jobs of their own, since they see they cant depend on the government for everything.
If they would have followed directions the first time, they would have left New Orleans. If they would have followed directions the second time, they would have had enough to eat and drink.
The people at the convention center were not where they were supposed to be. Had they been at the SuperDoom rather than the convention center, they would have been seen and well on the way to a rescue.
SUVs arent the problem. If everyone with an Expedition traded them in for Geo Metros tonight, gas wouldnt decrease any. The market is driven by profit. Simple math shows that they get more profit from the same invested cost out of people driving 20 mpg SUVs, than people driving 45 mpg Econoboxes.
The price of gas would go even higher. If everyone is driving a Civic, that will be less gas bought, thus lowering the profits for everyone from the guy behind the register, up to the CEOs of the oil companies. This is unacceptable to business. Thus, in reaction to the reduced profits, the prices would be raised by the oil companies to make up for the lost volume of sale.
I dont agree with Bush's Politics, but you liberal tree huggers give me the *beep*
Haha... you apparently didn't pay much attention in economics. Price is not profit-driven but market-driven. As you saw this week: as demand increased, prices increased. The reverse is also true that prices will go down as demand decreases. Different industries have different dynamics, but as demand decreases companies have to compete with each other to get our business, leading to lower prices. Anyway, this is neither here nor there. No one is going to trade in their SUV tomorrow.
As far as your callous attitude towards those in need, you should be ashamed of yourself.
If you believe this *beep* that you just posted, you are more retarded than the Brain Dead President. There does not have to be a reason for the Oil Companies to go up in price at the pumps. All they have to have is the Carte Blanche privileges that this administration has given them. 2.4 BILLION Dollar Tax Break via the Energy Bill just passed. READ FOR GOD'S SAKE
They put him in office and he is paying them back now by having a hands off approach.
We have New Orleans people moving into our neighborhood and I can't do enough so don't even go there and call me calloused.
Bush ran in 2000 as the Uniter and not the Divider. They worry about a civil war in Iraq. They ought to worry about a civil war here. The Class war. If the people in New Orleans would have been white instead of black, they would have convened a special session of Congress and Bush would have interrupted his 5 week vacation sooner. He came back on a Sunday to pass legislation for Terri Shiavo but couldn't come back to save thousands. WHAT A HIPPOCRIT
This website (http://norwegianity.com/index.php?id=2294) mentioned to watch for the movie to be playing again in the next few days. I guess check the TV guide and see how reliable that is??
shareyeah, i wasn't talking to you about being callous, i was talking to bill_shenk - the guy who basically said about the people in new orleans that it's their own damn fault.
and as far as the gas stuff, it was a hypothetical situation posed by aformentioned callous person and yes, i'm sorry, even the oil industry is governed by supply/demand. the problems are 1. there is NEVER going to be a large drop in demand, people drive how much they want to drive and pay what they have to - what economists call inelastic demand. price doesn't largely affect people's demand for gas. problem #2: OPEC controls supply as a monopoly - something that would be illegal if it were an American company - unfortunately we have no jurisdiction to prosecute an international cartel. and what you mentioned adds to the problem, but is by no means the sole issue. anyway, i hope prices will come back down once the infrastructure down south is restored. but who knows when that will happen.
On FoxNews.com yesterday:
"Crude oil prices fell by $2 a barrel on Friday as Europe prepared to tap up to two million barrels a day of emergency reserves to help ease a fuel crisis threatening the United States."
Supply goes up, price comes down. See?
I have noticed that it is almost impossible to find out who is responding to who on these threads. Actually, the President has Executive Authority to FREEZE Gas Prices and to order RATIONING. That would keep the prices in check and the consumption in check. One without the other won't work. If you freeze the prices, people would over consume filling up their tanks, er SUV's, cars, boats and any containers they could lay their hands on. Rationing without price freezes still lets the Oil companies have Carte Blanche when it comes to charging for their product. This price freeze/rationing worked very well in WWII and so it could work again. Yes, we have a different society than we did then. Things are more spread out but there has to be some number (gallons per week per family) that will work that will be feasible. Farming would require a little more as the combines and other farming equiptment would require more but for personal consumption, I would recommend 20 gallons a week. If you are finding that that is not enough, sell the damned SUVs and buy something that conserves more and gets better gas mileage. God forbid we should roll down our windows and turn off the AC. That would give our cars better mileage. We might have a bit more of a body odor problem but hell, isn't that what antiperspirants are for anyway?
Actually on myth busters a little while ago, there was a piece about how rolling down the windows is just as inefficient as using AC because of the drag it creates.
Bill Shenk - That was a horrible and ignorant comment. I can't believe you blame the people of NO for their misfortune. How many of them do you think don't have cars? It's not their fault if the buses or trains aren't utilized or won't take them out.
Be kind: keep your ignorant words unspoken
shareI personally feel that if u want to be a leader, you've gotta take up the responsibility of taking care of ur people. Otherwise, just step down. At such a time like this when NO is in trouble, it's not a time to be strong and egoistic to turn down the help of other countries. In times like that, you'll have to ask for help somehow, for the best interest of your people.
shareToo many people think reality is based on their *opinions* rather than what
is really happening.
I've been monitoring what the super-rich elites have been up to for 20 years now, and I can't find *ANY* reports regarding what they are up to that are good. In fact, *everything* they do appears to be criminally evil in pretty much *every* example.
The super-rich rob us to death, and now they want genocide in North America...not just Africa or Bosnia...and the population here is too far gone to do anything about it.
We're a bunch of evil *MONEY LOVERS* and even the poor tolerate mass greed and all it entails. FEMA was out there *INSTIGATING* to increase the severity of the atrocity, so that you can have a great depression and national draft next year. The amount of evil going on is unbelievable, but people seem to think it can be *PRETENDED* away.
"Just *PRETEND* hard enough and we'll all be safe"
And *please* scrap the "hee hee, the guy is a kook" behavior. This thing could descend into a full fledged holocaust if we're not careful...and judging by the selfish and dishonest character most people have adopted now adays...I'm not sure there are enough people with the backbone to turn this around.
Alex Jones is a bit of a loudmouth, and scares the shallow sheeple of America and their Disneyland mentalities, but he's documenting what's going on.
infowars.com There are many more sites if you look...
BUT, if you like being fed the lies...tune into CNN or FOX. They dish out great cattle feed. Just don't say the "H" word....HAMBURGER. Bush, Cheney and their Royal masters "care" about all of you. They really must! They're billionaires and want you drugged, vaccined and making 50 cents an hour...but they "Care".
Total evil is breaking loose, but nobody is stopping it because it's more comfortable to live in *DENIAL*. Giggle, and scream your pre-programmed curses about lefties, tree huggers or conspiracy theorists and make sure you avoid the truth. The next victim could be you, but I'm sure it won't happen if you *pretend* hard enough, and cling to stupid myths.
God help us all.
tkra
What exactly do you mean a "full-fledged holocaust"? I'm afraid I don't follow. It seems to me that people are being evacuated to relief centers, not gas chambers. It sounds like you actually believe that Katrina was called forth from the pockets of the evil, greedy rich people.
I'm afraid you do come off like quite a kook. Perhaps using the word "evil" a few less times would lend a bit of credibility to your future rants. Just a suggestion.
What exactly do you mean a "full-fledged holocaust"? I'm afraid I don't follow.
Everyone who cares about the present and more importantly, the future, I urge you to check out this web site: www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net for a more chilling
look at the future of the "American Dream". Follow the links to the man's mainstream and credible sources. I haven't had a good night's sleep in over a week now, and I doubt I ever will again. Hurricane Katrina and the aftermath is just a taste of what's still to come. Oil Storm had some elements right, but overall, they downplayed the reality a bit... there won't be a happy ending when the REAL storm hits. Bush still needs to reinstate the draft, so he can begin the next phase of the resource war (Iran). And the anniversary of 9-11 is just around the corner, a made to order opportunity, if you ask me. Think Sept 11, 2001 could happen without our governments complicity? Think again! www.fromthewilderness.com Follow the links! I thought it was farfetched too! But now? I'm not so sure.The war on terrorism will end when there is no more oil left to fight over, or our oil dependent ECONOMY has completely and irreversibly collapsed.And billions of people have died. And there's your holocaust. Peak Oil is real and it's upon us. The clues are everywhere. And I haven't even mentioned global warming. For all of you naysayers, think about this;
Hurricane Andrew and Hurricane Katrina hit land on the same date. Hurricane Andrew was the first named storm of that years season, Katrina is the 11th....think about it.
trever-k : i completly agree, i cant agree more even.
But, alas, too many cant understand.
Thats why their plans will be working and we will never have the change to change it.
Isnt everything predetermined. Not in a spiritual way but in an inner circle way.
What they are doing is making us think the way they want us to think.
Movies are their best tools to manupulate the minds of the ones who dont/cant understand what you mean by the "H" word.
Isnt it a big coincidance that movies are becoming better and better at "guessing" what will happen in the future.
see the American Idiot music video in which there is a faded US flag at the background and the singer is walking in green swamp water. coincidance? lol
I guess it was prophetic.
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