On the IMDB, Ed Champion discovers a movie called Blood Car:
In the near future gas prices have reached astronomical highs nearing $40 a gallon. One man, Archie Andrews, an environmentalist elementary school teacher, is trying to discover an alternate fuel source. While experimenting with wheat grass, Archie accidentally stumbles upon a solution. That solution turns out to be blood. HUMAN BLOOD!
Champion wonders if the film will be pointed satire or just cheesy horror. While, unlike him, I’m not sure I’d want to see it either way, I think I’d be more interested in the cheesy horror version. Not as a filmgoing experience necessarily — there the satire would probably be more interesting — but simply as cultural artifact. The idea that we may have entered a period when $40/gallon gas seems like such little exaggeration, that it doesn’t feel like satire — I find that idea very interesting. Depressing as all get out, sure, but still interesting.