I haven’t seen the movie Syriana yet but I thought that the review by Roger Ebert pretty much sums up the oil crisis.

Ebert writes, “…there is less oil than the world requires, and that will make some rich and others dead, unless we all die first.”

He also writes, [Syriana suggests] “that all of the players in the oil game are corrupt and
compromised, and in some bleak sense must be, in order to defend their
interests — and ours.”

And finally, “no one in this movie understands the big picture because there isn’t one, just a series of tactical skirmishes. Syriana argues that in the short run, every society must struggle for oil, and in the long run, it will be gone.”

The vision of the world that he describes when reviewing the movie is a bit bleak, but in my opinion (and I’m no political analyst – probably a good thing), I think that it pretty much hits the nail on the head.

You can read the entire review here.