We are giving away a pair of tickets to see PUMP the movie at any showing on October 4. To win, comment on this post why you’d like to attend. Winner will be drawn and emailed Friday, October 3.
Pump:The Movie is a documentary from directors Joshua Tickell and Rebecca Harrell Tickell. The question that is asked by this film is, “can America truly end its dependence on oil?” Not just foreign oil, but oil in general.
Produced in conjunction with the nonprofit Fuel Freedom Foundation, “Pump” is less a movie than a Web page in motion. But the arguments have an appealing logic for those concerned about the environment.
The U.S. energy problem is very much due to a breakdown of the free market, contends the new documentary, “Pump.” Married co-directors Josh Tickell and Rebecca Harrell Tickell show how Big Oil’s monopoly on transportation fuels hurts Americans more than they realize. If drivers had options when filling up their tanks, both country and consumers would benefit.
There are better and worse ways to put together an issue-oriented documentary with an agenda; Joshua Tickell (following up his similarly-themed 2008 documentary Fuel) and Rebecca Tickell show one of the better ways.
Read more at: CityWeekly.net [Salt Lake City Weekly]
Brooklyn.Ny1.com [Time Warner News]
This man is showing a crowd in Times Square how he can, in just a few seconds with a software upgrade, convert this gasoline powered Chevy Cruze into a Flex Fuel vehicle, and he wants you to consider doing the same to your car.
Salt Lake Tribune
The film starts with a history of the American automobile and the parallel growth of the oil industry, focusing on how Big Oil conspired to eliminate any alternatives, like electric trolley cars and alcohol for fuel. Then the movie (narrated by Jason Bateman) details how America’s oil consumption grew just as the supply became largely controlled by other countries, and how China is rapidly growing as an oil consumer.
Zurich Film Festival
Special screenings and information about PUMP at the Zurich Film Festival
Wall Street Journal
The U.S. and global economy has been all but crushed by the cartel pricing power of OPEC) for far too long. Worse than a consumption tax, high oil prices, because of our current dependence on internal combustion and compression engines using oil products, have been a burden for decades. The perpetrators of the cartel force U.S. and global consumers to pay not only for oil but for the costs of social welfare, such as it is, infrastructure and military capability in their respective countries.
