Jewish Journal
It’s already been 13 years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and in that time we’ve come to understand the difficult geopolitical situation that our oil dependence has put us in. In order to keep our cars running, the United States needs to keep the leaders of oil-rich Middle Eastern countries happy. What happens if they’re not happy?
Blume Distillation LLC, a leading provider of appropriate-scale, alcohol fuel production systems, announced today its support for and participation in premier events for the release of PUMP the movie. PUMP is a new release from filmmakers Josh and Rebecca Tickell and focuses on alternative energy solutions.
The fall rush of new films began in earnest this weekend. But the initial results will give the specialized industry players pause. The more anticipated potential crossover films, including “The Guest,” “Hector and the Search for Happiness,” “Tusk,” “Tracks” and “Keep On Keepin’ On” did not open strong. Three documentaries showed promise in their initial dates.
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The film’s premise is that America is addicted to oil, and that the addiction is fueled by corporations and policymakers with a vested interest in ensuring that gasoline remains the country’s transportation fuel of choice – even though there are viable alternatives, to blend with gasoline or substitute for it. They include ethanol – pure alcohol usually made from corn or sugarcane but also from non-food organic mate- rial; methanol, a fuel and chemical building block derived from natural gas and some renewable sources; compressed natural gas; and liquefied natural gas.
Sandy, Utah Chamber of Commerce
Right now, we have the ability to protect our environment by ending our dependence on oil. PUMP: An important new movie about ending our oil addiction that could change the rules of the game and open the market to cleaner, cheaper, American made replacement fuels.
A car’s high beams trace slow-motion lightning across the highway. An auto worker in suspenders strides the factory floor. These seductive images of the American automotive industry act as dreamy parentheses to Josh and Rebecca Tickell’s compelling and cogent documentary Pump, which examines why Americans are so lacking in options at the gas station, what that means about the future of transportation and environmental health, and why the oil-driven American Dream must die — why it is dying.
Many documentaries have decried the evils of Big Oil. After all, there’s a lot to hate: it holds our wallets hostage, pollutes the planet’s atmosphere, it’s one of the motivating factors behind American involvement in Middle East conflicts in past and present centuries, and it has a grip on us that’s exceedingly difficult to break. So what’s different about the new film from Josh and Rebecca Tickell? “Pump” takes a proactive approach, spotlighting the things other countries, innovative companies, and enterprising individuals are doing in the realm of alternative fuels.
It’s about time that someone pricked the fraudulent “Saudi America” narrative that the oil industry and its allies have been peddling successfully to the media for the past several years—and a new movie “Pump the Movie“ does exactly that.
