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Fuel for Thought
by CAPtioned (movies profile)
Jan 22, 2009
Most of the "reviews" posted aren't reviews at all -- just a whole lot of attitude. Pointless. Which is why it's a shame that their "average" reduces the profile of a really entertaining fact-based film. It's a story about a young man who, in flashbacks, left his early childhood in Australia for "Cancer Alley" in the Louisiana bayous, and lived in the destruction-for-profit environment of Louisiana politics. He set out to find a way to make his world better, and stumbled on an answer in Germany -- farmers growing their own fuel, biodiesel! The movie chronicles the parallel development of his own consciousness and a nascent industry bent on, ironically, better living through chemistry. Only, it's based on, literally, home-grown clean, green solutions -- not war-mongering, profiteering, and exploitation of most of us for a few of us.
"Fuel" goes beyond "An Inconvenient Truth", and recognizes that even in "The Eleventh Hour" we can find hope in our future and our innate ability to change things for the better, if only we fuel our ambitions with "the right stuff". Watch this movie, and you'll want to go right out and get clean fuel in your kids' school buses, get your community to run its garbage trucks on its own restaurant waste, demand that the automakers make you a practical car now based on real-time technology, and get your goods shipped to you in clean-burning trucks and trains. |
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