Gashole

GasHole is a documentary film about the history of oil prices and the future of alternative fuels. The film was completed in 2008, premiered and released directly to DVD in 2010. The film details the dependency of the United States on foreign supplies of oil. The documentary is directed by Scott D. Roberts and Jeremy Wagener and narrated by Peter Gallagher.

Next the movie talks about a waterinjected 1946 Buick Roadmaster that got 100 miles per gallon of gasoline. The gas was humidified and the pressure increased to get better mileage. The movie states that Shell Oil bought this idea and asked if they buried it. In 1977 the book Fuel Economy of the Gas Engine by Shell scientists states that they got 150 mpg in a 1947 Studebaker. On May 1st, 1977, The El Paso Times ran a front page article with the headline 200 Miles onGallons of Gas. Tom Ogle, the subject of the article, was found in the desert, dead from a drug overdose, and his car disappeared. The movie does not make any effort to ascertain the veracity of the waterinjected engine or other facts.After Hurricane Katrina, the energy committees in both the Senate and the House hold hearings about the sudden rise in gasoline prices, the first time that they have gone overper gallon. One Congressman asks if the oil companies are taking advantage. One chairman of a committee decides not to swear in the CEOs of the oil companies, alleviating them of the requirement to tell the truth. Senator Gordon Smith, ROre., observes that no Gulf crude is used on the West coast, yet gas prices spiked there as well. On Nov. 10, 2005, the Chevron Oil Company is quoted as saying, If the U.S. petroleum industry doesnt reduce its refining capacity, it will never see any substantial increase in refining margins. Representative Nancy Pelosi, DCal., states in a committee hearing that Shell is closing a refinery in California that producesof the gas used in the state, that it is Shells most profitable refinery, and that Shells claims that the refinery has no buyers, is not reliable and not making money are all not true, that Shell wants to control the supply of gas in order to increase profits. ........

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