"Fuel" movie premiere

I attended the premiere of Josh Tickell's Sundance Audience Award-winning documentary "Fuel" today. In a tone similar to "Who Killed the Electric Car?" the film performs a post mortem on a technology - in this case biodiesel - which isn't dead yet. It chronicles Tickell's evangelical quest to show the world how everything from a Mercedes Benz to a supertanker, with no modification, can run on oil completely derived from plants.

Though some autobiographical docs like this can run perilously close to self-aggrandizement, Fuel never goes there. It illustrates how last year's article in Science, which showed how a skewed economic model was causing world food shortages, caused Tickell to doubt not only his vision but himself. But Tickell comes out of the experience with renewed optimism, describing how algal farms and other new technologies are making biodiesel more relevant than ever.

A highlight is his examination of the life and mysterious death of Rudolf Diesel, how Diesel's invention was originally intended to run on plant oil, and how JD Rockefeller and Standard Oil hijacked the concept to use a refining byproduct.

A lot of these at the curb



Director and fiance



Race car driver Ashley Van Dyke



Anybody recognize this guy?



http://www.thefuelfilm.com

maybe at Sundance?

He was at the premiere today

:hi: