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Bio-Diesel Film Not To Everyone’s Tastes At Sundance
By Mr Ethanol | January 24, 2008
AFP:
Activist Josh Tickell has been using and promoting bio-diesel for about 10 years as an alternative to fossil fuels, helping America lessen its dependence on foreign oil.
In his documentary film “Fields of Fuel,” premiering at the Sundance Film Festival this week, he outlines the historical origins of and the political constructs that support petroleum use.
As well, he presents the benefits of bio-diesel, how it can be grown locally anywhere in the world to shift multi-national energy companies’ clout to local communities, mustering applause from audiences here.
But not everyone is buying into his message.
Environmentalists continue to push for a reduction in energy consumption as the best way to stem global warming and pollution — a point he concedes.
“The reality that we find ourselves in is that political power is concentrated, economic power is concentrated due to the massing of control over energy resources (by OPEC),” Tickell said in an interview with AFP.
In his film, Tickell criticizes John Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil Company, for his strategy to halt ethanol use in Henry Ford’s first Model T, and he fuels a longstanding conspiracy behind the death of Rudolf Diesel at the height of his engine’s popularization.
Topics: Biodiesel, Energy, News |
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