Basil Gelpke &
Ray McCormack's
A Crude Awakening is a fearmongering film about the day the world runs out of oil. Although the film is presented with numerous interviews and case examples it seems to rely on one source too many times: Stanford University. At one point up to four professors are cited in the same segment. If the facts were so prevailent, it should have been easy to find other Universities willing to back them up. The directors failed to do so and, as a consequence, it disables their position and the film.