Josh Tickell spent eleven years making this personal case against America's oil dependency, and he narrates it himself, tracing his own path from growing up near Louisiana oil refineries to touring the country in a van running on biodiesel. The film mixes his road-trip footage with archival material on the auto and oil industries, interviews with figures including Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, and Neil Young, and a history of how streetcars and electric vehicles lost out to gasoline power in the twentieth century. Tickell lays out biodiesel, ethanol, and other alternatives as workable paths off petroleum, while also walking through the environmental and political costs of the current system, from Gulf Coast pollution to foreign oil dependence. The tone is advocacy rather than neutral reporting, but it is built from real interviews, archival research, and firsthand footage rather than narration over stock images. It won the Sundance Audience Award for documentary, and the film's argument is ultimately optimistic: the alternatives already exist.