Petroleum Man

PETROLEUM MAN is a passionate and hilarious attack on American values and corporate culture, focused on the wisdom of one eccentric man's philosophy and the cars that inspired his greatest ideas. PETROLEUM MAN is a hilariously scathing satire that takes on both sides of some of the raging debates of our times - between democrats and republicans, haves and have-nots, trickle-down conservatives and bleeding-heart liberals. Bewildered by the odious "liberal democrat" tendencies of his son-in-law Chip, Leon Tuggs - self-made arch-capitalist billionaire, inventor of the ubiquitous and environmentally hazardous Thingie[registered], and author of the influential General Theory of Industrial Sex - decides to rescue his grandchildren from a life of guilt, indecision, and existential anxiety by educating them in the way the world actually works. These life lessons are accompanied by gifts of cast-iron replicas of the cars that he has owned, and are juxtaposed with illustrative examples from his own life in cars. From the 1939 Ford Fordor Sedan, in which the idea for Tuggs's first invention was conceived, to the 1966 Volvo P-122 Sedan, by which it is demonstrated how to negotiate the ugly menace of anti-trust legislation, to the 1992 Lincoln Town Car Stretch Limousine, the entree to a hysterically charged confrontation between Tuggs and his family, PETROLEUM MAN takes Swiftean malice and delight in exposing the vanity and frailty of some of the most popularly held prejudices of our times.