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Fields of Fuel, 2008
English
USA
Profile of Fields of Fuel
Fields of Fuel can be described as thought provoking, contemplative, and sincere. The plot revolves around saving the planet, environmentalism, and righting wrongs. The main genres are independent and documentary. In approach, Fields of Fuel is serious and realistic. It is located in the USA. It takes place in contemporary times. Fields of Fuel is drawn from a biography. The movie has received attention for being critically acclaimed and a Sundance Festival winner.
Summary of Fields of Fuel
Most Americans know weve got a problem: an addiction to oil that taxes the environment, entangles us in costly foreign policies, and threatens the nations long-term stability. But few are informed or empowered enough to do much about it. Enter Josh Tickell, an expert young activist who, driven by his own emotionally charged motives, shuttles us on a revelatory, whirlwind journey to unravel this addictionfrom its historical origins to political constructs that support it, to alternatives available now and the steps we can take to change things.
Tickell tracks the rising domination of the petrochemical industryfrom Rockefellers strategy to halt ethanol use in Fords first cars to the mysterious death of Rudolph Diesel at the height of his biodiesel engines popularization, to our governments choice to declare war after 9/11, rather than wean the country from fossil fuel. Never minimizing the complexities of ending oil dependence, Tickell uncovers a hopeful reality pointing toward a decentralized, sustainable energy infrastructurelike big rigs tanking up on biofuel at Carls Corner Texas truck stop, a new Brooklyn biodiesel plant serving three states, a miraculous Arizona algae-based fuel farm, and the Swedish public voting to be petroleum free by 2020.
Sweeping and exhilarating, Tickells passionate film goes beyond great storytelling; it rings out like a bell that stirs consciousness and makes individual action suddenly seem consequential.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 21 January 2008 |
| Runtime: | 90 min |
Cast and Crew
as Himself / narrator
as Herself - Senator - California
as Himself - Founder, Virgin Group
as Himself - President of the United States
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