Sundance. Fields of Fuel.

Fields of Fuel "segues from a first-person history of its maker, an Australian-born alternative fuel activist, through a history of the fossil fuel industry to an upbeat final section that demonstrates the feasibility of converting to alternative fuel sources, most notably, biodiesel fuel that can be manufactured from everything from vegetable oil to, one day, algae," writes Scott Macaulay at Filmmaker. "As a filmmaker, [Josh] Tickell knows how to cleverly structure non-fiction subject matter."

Kim Voynar at Cinematical: "Tickell lays out the case for biodiesel as the fastest and most sustainable means to reduce our country's dependence on oil: Henry Ford and Rudolf Diesel both designed their engines to operate on vegetable oil, but the increasing dominance of the oil barons, in particular John D Rockefeller, says Tickell, killed biodiesel before it had a chance to get off the ground, laying the framework for the oil dependence that drives everything from home heating to how we get around."

"[T]heatrical seems as likely as Saudi Arabia switching to solar power," predicts John Anderson in Variety. "But film's sentiments are clean and very, very green."

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