Western Europe’s wind drought has them scrambling for fossil fuels, like their lives depend upon it, and it’s as if they didn’t see it coming! Who would ever have thought that the wind might stop blowing for extended spells?
The almost dystopian panic brings to mind George Miller’s dystopian post-Apocalypse action-thriller, Mad Max 2.
Mel Gibson’s Max Rockatansky – aka the Road Warrior – is an ex-cop, outcast and loner who had been roaming the wastelands for years, until he stumbles upon the desert compound and refuge of a clan of misfits and renegades (the Settlers), defending themselves against a marauding mob of cutthroats, led by the evil Lord Humungus (the Marauders).
Max manages to enter the compound and escape Humungus and his band of vicious thugs, for a time.
Max is already alive to the fact that the compound houses a petrol refinery and also, apparently, holds fuel…
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