our year with out oil e4 10pm tues

andybebbington · our year with out oil e4 10pm tues

Our Year Without Oil (Recipes for Disaster)
Tues 1 July 2008 10pm
A documentary following a family as they embark on a oil detox, and try to lives their lives without using fossil fuels.

http://www.channel4.com/more4/documentaries/doc-feature.jsp?id=212

could be interesting

andy

IainC

Anyone else watch it then... I suddenly remebered it was on about 5-10mins into the programme.

Was okay to watch but thought the bloke was a bit OTT about some stuff. Showed by the end though that although they'd made a difference by being quite draconian about somethings, they'd have made as much of a difference (if not more) by doing some other things instead.

kimmie

no i missed it!!

was something that i wanted to see as well....how do you rate it iain? if its repeated...would it be worth watching?

IainC

Well, TBH quite a bit of the way thru' it I kept thinking that he was concentrating on the wrong stuff or going completely OTT. If I was his wife I'd have swung for him I think

It's 2hrs long (inc adverts) and some of it is subtitles (she didn't want to speak english much).

For example he got shot of his car at the start, despite the fact that in this country it'd have been low road tax due to the emissions it put out and they struggled to get by until he then found out about biodiesel (excluding the fact he needed to travel 300miles or kms to fill up at his nearest place).

Think someone with a bit more thought at the start could make a far better film but I guess that's probably not what it was about IYKWIM.