The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 325
Not only did I listen to the press conference live, but I also participated in it. In
my opinion, this study and its findings are irrelevant, immaterial, off-base,
wrong, and/or entirely fraudulent. The study and its findings continue a long
history of oil industry misdeeds that were and are designed to keep America
and most of the world enslaved to gasoline
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Let me take this point-by-point:
The EPA Waiver
The EPA took on the study of E15 because they were requested to do so by
members of the ethanol industry. They didn't do it because of some New World
Order socialist conspiracy to control our lives (I acknowledge that the EPA has
been guilty of this, but this study didn't originate with them). Either because the
request originated from an outside source, or because the EPA lacks the authority to mandate the use of E15, they did not mandate its use, they merely
made a recommendation that it could be used without undue harm. They also
recommended that additional warning labels be placed at filling stations to alert
consumers to the fact that this fuel from an E15 pump was E15 fuel, as compared to E85, regular gasoline (E10), diesel, plain water, or compressed air.
Currently, there are other similar labels on station pumps, so this label wouldn't
be out of the ordinary.
The EPA's study was not conducted unreasonably quickly. The original request
to test was submitted in March 2009. The preliminary findings were released in
September 2010 - 18 months later. That period of time is at least as long as the
study time conducted by CRC to dispute the EPA findings.
In today's anti-E15 press conference the Big Oil spokespeople stressed that
CRC's study was conducted by experts. They used the word "experts" again
and again as if to say that the EPA relied merely on the opinion of monkeys.
The EPA's study was based upon the work done by the government's testing
laboratories - the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Argonne National Laboratory. I tried to ask the panel if they felt that the two U.S. labs were
less expert or if they didn't have experts, but I was cut off before I could ask the
question.
I can assure you that both government laboratories have experts, too. Oh, and
by the way, when the EPA did the test they also tested E20 just to see if perhaps
E15 represented some invisible line that if broken would have disastrous effects. E20 proved as harmless to the tested engines as E15. How do I know
this? During the October 2010 press conference, I asked if they tested any other
