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By G. Allen Johnson
San Francisco Chronicle
Published on Thursday, Nov 05, 2009
I'm not sure if biodiesel fuels are the answer to the world's oil addiction, but director Josh Tickell makes a good case for it in Fuel, a peppy, bouncy documentary that is watchable and informative, although Tickell's celebrity name-dropping at times detracts from the serious message.
When it premiered at Sundance in January, Fuel laid out the case for ethanol as the world's savior, until news reports attacked the corn-based alternative as just as damaging to the environment. Tickell, a longtime alternative fuel activist from Louisiana, shot new material and re-edited the movie into a case for algae-based biodiesel fuels.
Fuel is generally strong and informative, but the two things that get in the way are the upbeat music soundtrack, which seems to never let up and often muffles what people are saying, and the rash of celebrities who agreed to give Tickell their time.
I'm not sure if biodiesel fuels are the answer to the world's oil addiction, but director Josh Tickell makes a good case for it in Fuel, a peppy, bouncy documentary that is watchable and informative, although Tickell's celebrity name-dropping at times detracts from the serious message.
When it premiered at Sundance in January, Fuel laid out the case for ethanol as the world's savior, until news reports attacked the corn-based alternative as just as damaging to the environment. Tickell, a longtime alternative fuel activist from Louisiana, shot new material and re-edited the movie into a case for algae-based biodiesel fuels.
Fuel is generally strong and informative, but the two things that get in the way are the upbeat music soundtrack, which seems to never let up and often muffles what people are saying, and the rash of celebrities who agreed to give Tickell their time.
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