Mad Max........

[DVOLVO]

Is it Just me or does anyone else think that MadMax was a futuristic film that with the way the fuel costs and the crime rate is going that we will be living that life in the near future and I mean the real near future..

[Cobez]

No..........

[VN_Luke]

Maybe, except that if we run out of fuel in the world.... I'll likely be driving a festiva or charade, that uses barely any fuel.......... as opposed to a BLOWN 351 that must only get 100m/galon.

[knowledge_is_power]

I have a mate that thinks the same notion. I don't think it will be to the extent. There will be other alternative modems of transportation before it gets anything like it.

Brings up an intersting point though, I wonder want a remake in todays settings would look like.

[Emackulation]

Maybe, except that if we run out of fuel in the world.... I'll likely be driving a festiva or charade, that uses barely any fuel.......... as opposed to a BLOWN 351 that must only get 100m/galon.

Haha, so true. But there has to be someone who wants to be different.

[VN_Luke]

Haha, so true. But there has to be someone who wants to be different.

..... so they should put neons and bonnet pins on their magna and LEAVE ME SOME FUEL.

[sixshooter]

Is it Just me or does anyone else think that MadMax was a futuristic film that with the way the fuel costs and the crime rate is going that we will be living that life in the near future and I mean the real near future..

Well yeah we'll all be farked up when the oil runs out... It will be like the Wild West again... So better invest in a gun right now !!!

[Cheap6]

Fuel (oil) won't ever actually run out, just get very expensive. There could be some economic disruption (like recession or depression) if the price rise occurs very quickly. If it happens slowly enough, people will adapt - buy more fuel efficient cars, live closer to work, telecommute etc.

That is why govt.'s have a role to play in encouraging alternatives and discouraging investment that locks us in to a high level of use; the fuel excises are probably to low atm to achieve this.

For us, in Aust. and NZ, fuel won't be unavailable because we can, for the forseeable future, afford to pay for it. For some in poorer regions of the world, they will never be able to afford it.

It's interesting that Mad Max was written with the fuel crisis of the early '70's still easily recalled and made, and released, at a time when up until recently oil prices reached a historical high.