Things to consider
Maintain petroleum market-share/lie through their teeth that bio-fuels
are categorically "dirtier" than petroleum, because the production costs no matter how we look at them outstrip
their relative levels of combustion emmissions/pollution: differences in their respective burning.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/the_case_against_ethanol_bad_for_environment
Marc Rauch comment:
I can't say for sure, since I haven't done a count and compared it to
a calendar, but it seems to me that the American oil industry has been
ramping up its attacks on ethanol and trying to gain ground by adding in
more 'high-powered' lapdogs to press their fallacious arguments. These
minions come from universities and think-tanks (what I like to call
stink-tanks).
One of the basic errors that the gasoline lapdogs
make is that they act as if gasoline and petroleum diesel were some type
of healthful elixir, and that in attempting to insert ethanol fuels
into the market that the perfumed life-giving essence of fossil fuels
are being polluted by greedy, evil farmers. This is evidenced in such
recent works of deception as those articles written by John DeCicco,
Research Professor at University of Michigan Energy Institute; Daniel De
La Torre Ugarte, Research Professor, Department Of Agricultural And
Resource Economics University Of Tennessee; and Carlisle Ford Runge,
Professor of Applied Economics and Law at the University of Minnesota.
These recent 'works of tragedy' can be found at:
http://link.springer.com/ar...
http://accf.org/10-year-rev...
http://e360.yale.edu/featur...
The
reality is that gasoline and petroleum diesel fuel, along with the
various additives manufactured by the oil industry, are vile deadly
substances. The only possible thing that could be more harmful to the
public is if the oil industry just pumped large quantities of sarin into
the atmosphere. And the use of the benign word "aromatics" to refer to
such additives as benzene and toluene are as much of a cruel joke as
that which awaited incoming prisoners at Nazi concentration camps when
they were told they were just being given a cleansing 'shower.' By the
way, I didn't just reference the actions of the Nazis out of
coincidence; please remember that Standard Oil did collaborate with the
Nazis during World War II.
What's the bottom line difference between gasoline/aromatics and ethanol? Here's three videos that speak volumes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6qKa8X6o1w&feature=youtu.be
https://youtu.be/sg6sZq8Sefk
https://youtu.be/udJSDyZUolo
Okay, so we have the three "distinguished" professors, who might have
been right at home working alongside Josef Mengele, arguing that
ethanol production produces more harmful gases than the production of
gasoline and diesel fuel. And one of the ways that they arrive at this
spurious position is by calculating in the harmful emissions given off
by the various machines used in the crop growing and ethanol delivery
process. Clearly no one explained to them that storks don't find and
deliver finished fossil fuel products to filling stations around the
world.
And I guess these three stooges don't know about all the
CO2 and other harmful gases that are emitted in the process of defending
oil around the world. I guess they think that all the planes, and
ships, and armored vehicles, and personnel carriers run on magic
non-polluting fairy dust. And then no one explained to them that the
production of all the weapons and ammunition requires energy usage. Oh,
and then there's the manufacture of all the uniforms for all the service
personnel, as well as all the food and the housing. And then there are
the pollutants given off every time a shell or bomb explodes, and every
time an individual weapon is discharged. And then all emissions used by
first-responder vehicles when they are called to the scene of a related
terrorist attack. And then all the harmful emissions related to cleaning
up oil disasters, not to mention the bodies of all the dead animals
killed as a result of the oil disasters.
While I'm on the subject
of dead bodies, do you think that the three schlemiels ever consider the
millions of people killed in the wars waged over oil? I have a feeling
they don't.
About a day after John DeCicco and the University of
Michigan published their story, MichBio, the biosciences industry
association in Michigan, issued a statement about DeCicco in which they
wrote:
“It's unfortunate when scientists conduct research
predicated on assumptions that lead to biased results, rather than
conducting a truly independent analysis,” said Stephen Rapundalo, PhD,
President and CEO, MichBio.
“Moreover, the Petroleum Institute’s direct
funding of the research calls into question any impartiality on the part
of the research team and hence the study’s conclusions.”
"In sum,
this study is an attempt by the oil industry to smear the biofuels
industry and stifle competition in the fuels market. It ignores the
benefits of Michigan’s homegrown biofuels industry, and if its
conclusions were to be valid stands to hinder a potential economic
driver for Michigan and the U.S."
Moreover, Argonne National
Laboratory has stated that ethanol reduces greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions by an average of 34 percent compared to gasoline, even when
the highly controversial and disputed theory on Indirect Land Use Change
(ILUC) is factored into the modeling. Additionally, Argonne has found
that without ILUC included, ethanol reduces GHG emissions by 57 percent
compared to gasoline.
When Daniel De La Torre Ugarte issued his
report this past May, The Auto Channel (along with several others) took
him to task for his oil industry paid-for conclusions. Here is what we
published:
ARE ETHANOL OPPONENTS SNIFFING GLUE?
http://test.theautochannel....
As
for C. Ford Runge, he tried hitting the whole litany of oil industry
created lies about ethanol. And he even quoted Emily Cassidy from the
Environmental Working Group as an informational resource.
I don't think
Ms. Cassidy and the entire EWG could find their way out of a paper bag
that has opening at both ends. However, in reading Mr. Runge's article
it's clear that all he did to collect his bounty from the oil industry
was to restate the same old tired and well refuted oil industry lies.
Here's
what I'd like to know: When C. Ford Runge is called a "distinguished
professor," does that really mean that he's distinguished (apart) from
those professors who actually know what they're talking about?
The
oil industry's tutelage of professors makes a mockery of academia. But
why should the oil industry care if they ultimately ruin the honor and
prestige of the professors they're buying, after all they are perfectly
willing to sacrifice the lives of millions of soldiers, sailors and
airmen to protect their filthy empire.
But there's two very
interesting things about all of the oil industry's machinations to
defame ethanol.
The first is that next generation automobile engines
will require fuels with greater octane levels than E10 can provide. The
engines will need E20, E30, E40, and so on. The only alternative is to
increase the amount of benzene/toluene, which is too costly and too
dangerous. So ultimately the oil industry will probably start buying up
ethanol distilleries so that they can keep the profits. Won't it be
funny to see how the oil industry changes its tune on ethanol?
The
second thing is that many of the same cars and boats sold in America
are also sold in countries like Brazil and Thailand, and they have
significantly higher minimum ethanol blend mandates then the U.S. These
cars and boats all work fine. This means that the warnings and warranty
restrictions currently given by OEMs in America is nonsense.
If
you like a full rundown on the myths and lies invented by the oil
industry to denounce ethanol please read one or more of The Auto
Channel's articles on this subject:
TRUTH ABOUT ETHANOL - 60+ page Reply to Robert Bryce's GUSHER OF LIES
http://www.theautochannel.c...
Life As We Might Have Known It: What If Ethanol Was Our Primary Engine Fuel
http://www.theautochannel.c...
The Rise & Fall of General Motors and the Subjugation of the Industrialized World
http://www.theautochannel.c...
The Irrelevance Of BTU Rating - Big Oil's Gimmick To Hoodwink The Public
http://www.theautochannel.c...
Every Spark-Ignited Internal Combustion Engine Ever Produced Has Been Damaged By Gasoline
http://www.theautochannel.c...
Detroit News Story Goes Overboard in Slamming Ethanol
http://www.theautochannel.c...
Why Do Small Engines Suffer From Ethanol Problems?
http://www.theautochannel.c...
Ethanol Does NOT Suck Water Out Of The Air
http://www.theautochannel.c...
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Where is Greta Thunberg and her followers on this?
Do they simply believe that say rapidly adopting all electric cars (not hybrids/no range extender combustion engines, no matter how small, etc), with say a Bernie Saunders $2 trillion dollar grant /mandatory combustion engine trade in-destruction, financed with an extra $8 a gallon in fuel taxes?
What of such a policy's own added spike of greenhouse gases.
METHANE JOLT - Jolt Siberian Methane- via the Russian allied U.S. Green Party?
To help with envisioning such a solution, please look at WDC's DuPont Circle as well as my cir. year 2000 Rt 1/Beltway "Alexandria Orb" proposal.