Documents the history of oil prices and the future of alternative fuels, featuring interviews with a wide range of viewpoints from US Department of Energy officials, Congressional leaders--both Democrat and Republican, alternative fuel producers, alternative fuel consumers and professors of economics and psychology. The film takes a wide, yet detailed examination of America's dependence on foreign supplies of oil, examining many different potential solutions to oil dependence. Starting with claims of buried technology that dramatically improves gas mileage, to navigating bureaucratic governmental roadblocks, to evaluating different alternative fuels that are technologically available now, to questioning the American consumer's reluctance to embrace alternatives.