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blend levels at the same time. You can hear it for yourself if you listen to the
press conference via the link above. (Argonne and NREL have actually been
studying ethanol for years.)
So, knowing about the E20 test, you might ask, "Why didn't the EPA recommend E20, too?" I also asked that question. The answer was that they (the
EPA) were only asked to test E15, so that's all they are responding to. The E20,
as I mentioned above, was just used as a control of sorts. The significance here
is that if the EPA wanted to force the evil ethanol monster on us, as API contends, they would have gone straight to E20. That information is only available
to the world because the question was asked.
In addition, to support the findings of the government labs, Ricardo Laboratories
- perhaps the world’s most prestigious private testing lab - conducted their own
independent study of E15 and not only arrived at the same EPA conclusions,
but they broadened their acceptance of E15 to include vehicles manufactured
as far back as 1994*.
• Read about the Ricardo Study
Moreover, ethanol is not a new engine fuel. It was used in the very first internal
combustion vehicle in the 1820s. Up until the time when General Motors scientists invented the use of leaded gasoline, ethanol was considered the better
fuel. What the GM scientists sought to achieve with the invention of leadedgasoline was a fuel that mimicked the performance qualities of ethanol. Gasoline didn't become the dominant fuel because it was better than ethanol, it became the dominant fuel because GM, the world's largest auto maker, found a
way to make billions of dollars of profit by promoting their new patented product.
GM was given mighty assistance in achieving fuel dominance by partnering with
John Rockefeller's oil-gasoline companies. Rockefeller then delivered the fait
accompli to the contest when he gave millions of dollars in bribes to politicians
to vote for Prohibition, virtually wiping ethanol from the field of competition.
Ethanol, and various blends of ethanol-gasoline, have been studied, tested, and
used in America and around the world for more than 150 years. To say that
studies using ethanol are premature is as much of a joke as when the oil-gasoline industry and its political lackeys told us that leaded-gasoline was not harmful (Joe Biden once testified before Congress that leaded-gasoline was not
harmful to humans).
