The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 337
AAA Blunder on Ethanol Sets Off
Firestorm of Criticism
Fox Business News Worsens the AAA Blunder with a
Barrage of Stupidity
Originally published January 8, 2013
Last Thursday (Jan. 3rd), we received a copy of a video interview produced by
FOX Business News between Melissa Francis, host of FOX’s “MONEY” show,
and Lauren Fix, who bills herself as “The Car Coach.”
The topic addressed in the interview was a recent editorial published by AAA
that calls for the national suspension of E15 fuel sales because AAA claims that
the gasoline-ethanol blend can damage vehicle engines. The AAA editorial was
published on December 12, 2012. This editorial followed, by two weeks, a similar AAA editorial that made the same claims. The two editorials can be found
at the following links, respectively:
http://newsroom.aaa.com/2012/11/new-e15-gasoline-may-damage-vehiclesand-cause-consumer-confusion/
http://newsroom.aaa.com/2012/12/suspend-sale-of-e15-gasoline/
There was no reason given why AAA felt the need to reiterate the same information just two weeks apart under a slightly different wrapping. I presume they
did it because they may have felt that there wasn’t sufficient public attention
