Zoom gives us insight into how our oil industries and political systems have gotten us into the mess we're in today, and how we can begin to turn that mess around and find our way to a better and more fuel efficient future.

Ian Carson and Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran cover the ups and downs of the American auto industry and the fall of Detroit's great reign. After years of research, they explain how Toyota became the world's largest automobile manufacturer and the new products powered by hydrogen, electricity, biofuels, and digital technology. There are a lot of frontiers yet to explore for alternative fuels of the future.

Zoom takes a hard look at cars, their past, present and their future. Our automobile manufacturers have made progress but still have a ways to go. Can Detroit reinvent itself? Car engines today are 90% cleaner then those of the 1970's.

Big oil = Big trouble! People are fed up with the oil companies and the high prices they are paying for gas. Oil companies are an industry in suspiciously good health, but that may not always be the case as reserves run low. Petroleum is a non-renewing resource. In all likelihood the world has decades to find a way beyond petroleum. We need a carbon constrained world beyond petroleum. We need to set our energy future on the right course.

The challenges are daunting but they are possible to overcome. The global race to fuel the car of the future is on. The way of oil and cars is giving way to something new - cleaner fuel sources.

A truly objective and informed view of one of the greatest issues of our time.