Passing gas on the road. Food for oil
By John Esther
Probably one of the most heartening documentaries that will come out this year, Josh Tickell’s self-biopic fuels the imagination for a better tomorrow.
Documenting the petrochemical domination of domestic and foreign policy -- from Standard Oil's strategy to cease and destabilize Ford's first ethanol cars to the war in Iraq/former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's suspicious (and secret) energy legislation -- writer Johnny O'Hara and Tickell display a country hooked, very deliberately in fact, to petrol.
Rather than be independent on foreign oil, Tickell’s thought provoking, and seemingly irrefutable, plan is to run our cars on biodiesel. No longer will Exxon/Mobil, Shell and Standard Oil fuel your car, but rather places such as KFC, McDonald's or any other greasy spoon. It is a great plan and, according to entrepreneurs, activists and actors, there is no reason why Americans cannot do it.
Winner of the Sundance Film Festival Best Documentary Audience Award, it has been a long time since Americans could feel good about their cars and Tickell’s formidable ideas about biodiesel refill America’s drive to be self-sufficient. A bit early to say, I know, but Fuel very well could make my top ten of 2009.
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