'Fossil fuels are wonderful', claims US documentary

[xchrom]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/oct/03/spoiled-documentary-oil-industry-energy

Here's a new documentary that I suspect we're going to hear lots more about in the coming months.

An Albuquerque-based filmmaker called Mark Mathis has produced a film called Spoiled, which promises to expose the "outright lies" being spread about oil by "the media, politicians and environmental activists". Mathis says it's now time to "fill up on the truth".

The film is just starting to be shown outside his hometown – it premiered at the Albuquerque Film Festival in August – but there are scheduled screenings in California later this year.

In an interview with the Farmington Daily Times, Mathis sets out why he made the film:

There has been a string of films that have tried to portray oil and gas and other energy sources as bad. This is the first film that questions the premise…I would describe it as first, a pro-truth film. The truth is that fossil fuels are wonderful…We're not addicted< to oil>; we're spoiled. We're spoiled by these resources like oil and natural gas that have given us this incredibly high quality of life.

Mathis says he is expecting and prepared for a hostile reaction from environmentalists:

They're very committed to their delusions. As the awareness of the film grows, we fully expect that people who are not fans of fossil fuels will line up to criticize the film.

[MADem]

1. Ha ha! They did this same shit with global warming, and all but the crazies

are acknowledging the "realness" of that now.

[hatrack]

2. Oh, goody - he produced "Expelled"!

You just know there's going to be all kinds of truth in this production!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[arcane1]

3. And that movie made so much money and was sooo influential

:rofl:

[Lint Head]

4. The producer said,

Mathis acknowledges that some of the film's funding came from individuals with interests in the oil and gas industry. But he said he maintained the film's independence. "I told these investors they would have no input in the content of the film," he said. "Some of the content they would like, some they might not"…

Duh, of course you would tell investors they would have no input. This is how one gives legitimacy to an obvious scam. I'm sure he told them up front it would be a positive message related to fossil fuels but they, the investors, would have no input into how that is communicated. If I were a cynical money hungry polluting oil company I would say, "Yeah, any positive message for us is great. Who do I make the check out to?"

[xchrom]

5. +1

[stuntcat]

6. "have given us this incredibly high quality of life."

what it's "given" "us" .. selfish much? Yeah, we have these freezers and meat factories and all this other stuff we take for granted, it's Given us so much, and it's happened so fast we couldn't even see the truth of our consumption until it's too late.

The fossil fuels is why our population went from less than 2 billion to more than 6 billion in one century.
And our species is so short-sighted and selfish most of us can't even imagine what it means to the planet, or that it could mean anything bad at all.