Discover
Rubber, Plastic, Nylon, Aerosols, Resins, Solvents, and Lubricants–none can exist without oil. If we stopped driving our cars tomorrow, America would still need five million barrels of oil a day. Visit Vulcan Materials, where oil tanks are emptied into massive double-barrel mixers to make asphalt and then continue to the Rolls Royce Aerospace Facility where complex jet fuels are blended. Travel back to the 1870’s to see how an unemployed whale oil salesman turned a greasy oil-drilling by-product into a household staple: Vaseline. Finally discover how cutting-edge recycling techniques can breathe new life into used motor oil, and where a number of renewable fuels and technologies take aim at oil sovereignty.
Original Release
07/30/2007
US Release
07/30/2007
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Nick Anderson | Self - Rock Climber |
| Billy Beverley | Self - Mill Root Technician |
| Karl Bostaph | Self - Plant Manager, Hercules Incorporated |
| Catherine Cavanaugh | Self - Lead Project Technician, Velcro Group Corporation |
| Charles Cole | Self - President, Stealth Rubber & Five Ten |
| Greg Couves | Self, Plant Manager 3M Company |
| Gordon Crawght | Self - Best Contracting Services, Incorporated |
| Peter Crean | Self - Senior Research Fellow, Xerox Corporation |
| Mark R. Cutkosky | Self - Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University |
| Ronald Fearing | Self - Electrical Engineering, U.C. Berkeley |
Writers
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Nick Anderson | Self - Rock Climber |
| Billy Beverley | Self - Mill Root Technician |
| Karl Bostaph | Self - Plant Manager, Hercules Incorporated |
| Catherine Cavanaugh | Self - Lead Project Technician, Velcro Group Corporation |
| Charles Cole | Self - President, Stealth Rubber & Five Ten |
| Greg Couves | Self, Plant Manager 3M Company |
| Gordon Crawght | Self - Best Contracting Services, Incorporated |
| Peter Crean | Self - Senior Research Fellow, Xerox Corporation |
| Mark R. Cutkosky | Self - Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University |
| Ronald Fearing | Self - Electrical Engineering, U.C. Berkeley |
| Robert Full | Self - Integrative Biology, U.C. Berkeley |
| Sean Gavin | Self - The Garland Company, Incorporated |
| Mike Jakstis | Self - Engineering Manager, A.V.C. Specialists |
| Mark Jennings | Self - Marketing Manager, 3M Company |
| Sangbae Kim | Self - Stickybot Inventor, PhD Candidate |
| Howard Kingsford | Self - VP Technology, Velcro Group Corporation |
| Eric Mussen | Self - Apiculturist, U.C. Davis |
| Peter Pelletier | Self - Treasurer, Velcro USA Incorporated |
| Alphonsus V. Pocius | Self - Corporate Scientist, 3M |
| Arya Nick Shamie | Self - Spine Surgeon, Santa Monica-UCLA Hospital |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Don Cambou | Executive Producer |
| Paul Dzilvelis | Producer |
| Tim Knauff | Producer |
| Phil Kruener | Producer |
| Ron Nelson | Producer |
