The acclaimed 2008 Sundance award-winning documentary film FUEL is the result of a 10-plus year odyssey by activist filmmaker Josh Tickell, who began his mission to break America's oil addiction by driving cross-country in the 1990s in the Veggie Van, an old Winnebago converted to run on waste grease from restaurants. FUEL recounts the history of U.S. energy use and energy policy-making and features notable policy-makers, environmentalists, scientists, and celebrity-activists. To coincide with the film's premiere, Tickell and producer Rebecca Harrell drove cross-country from California to New York City with a large caravan, including a green vehicle called the Algaeus—a Toyota Prius retrofitted with extra batteries and fueled partially with Green Crude, 100 percent algae gasoline mixed with regular gasoline. MGB spoke with Tickell and Harrell in Washington, DC, just before their scheduled arrival in New York for FUEL's premiere at AMC Theater, Times Square, on September 18.
