The co-opting of the environmental movement by the petroleum industry had a shattering effect. It crushed nascent biofuel businesses, killed research, cut off critical funding, stopped the building of new infrastructure, dissolved powerful alliances and seeded America with doubt over our ability to free ourselves from petroleum.

You can't disassemble a bomb unless you understand how it was built.

The bigger question, rather than what's true and what's false, is what do we want?

Independent films are really one of the greatest resources these days to actually find unfiltered truth.

Imagine people growing hemp and making everything from food to fuel without petroleum!

There's so much impetus for change, there's so much desire to not have this oil economy continue, but it continues nonetheless. And people often assume that's because technology is not good enough, or there's no money being invested, or it's just not ready yet. It's none of that. It's actually a system of government and corporate behavior that work in collusion and lock step with one another to deflect any momentum toward true alternative energies.

Truth is such a subjective thing.