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	TITLE: Running on Empty. A Hundred Years of Oil Politics
	Director: Patrick Barberis Genre: Documentary Format: HD Composer: Contributors: interviewees: Jean-Marie Chevalier, Loik Le Floch Prigent, Jamie Kitman, Yves Lacoste, Michael Watts, Company: Sodaperaga Runtime: 2 x 52 minutes. ID: 110.

SYNOPSIS

This Arte commission gives an insight into the political machinations, which are and have always been part of the oil business .We learn about the ruthlessness of the famous Seven Sisters and the ways governments are using oil as a political weapon. Major contributors include Robert Baer, Special Operations Chief of the CIA; Dick Cheney; Colin Campbell, a well known geologist; Mikhail Gorbachev; Sheikh Yamani; Roger Robinson, Special Adviser to Ronald Regan and Nicolas Sarkis, to name but a few.