An investigation into how Hugo Chavez's Venezuela is using its oil wealth to build political power at home and challenge US hegemony across the Americas. Its massive deposits of super-heavy crude add up to more oil than the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and make Hugo Chavez the America's new energy superpower.

The film unearths declassified documents and highlights forgotten passages in prominent presidential doctrines to show how concerns about oil have been at the core of American foreign policy for more than 60 years - rendering our contemporary energy and military policies virtually indistinguishable.

This documentary tells the story of how our civilization's addiction to oil puts it on a collision course with geology. The film visits with the world's top experts and comes to a startling, but logical conclusion - our industrial society, built on cheap and readily available oil, must be completely re-imagined and overhauled. You needn't be a conspiracy theorist to see a connection between America's current obsessions with the Middle East and national security, and the world's looming oil crisis. The frenzied search for alternative sources of energy now being pursued by the largest multinational energy corporations makes it clear they also believe a crisis is fast approaching...