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AAA subsequently contacted FOX and Lauren Fix and took them to task for
taking the AAA warnings out of context, then your silence is tantamount to endorsement.
The second thing is that I agree with your comment that "A large AAA oil-industry conspiracy to conspire against ethanol makes good...headlines." But if it's
not your intention to get that kind of publicity then I suggest you don't issue false
and misleading information. I didn't write the AAA warnings press releases, AAA
did. And if I am incorrect in the statements that I made about the AAA statements then you should have had your engineers get back to me in a timely
manner. And now that you are aware of how AAA's "Memorial Day Weekend"
projections were taken out of context by the oil industry to further denigrate
ethanol, you should make them aware that you don't appreciate their deceitful
tactics in lying to motorists and consumers."
TO EDELMAN PR: "Sorry if I misconstrued the meaning of the email you sent
me yesterday.
But since you included several pieces of AAA information that were included in
AAA-issued press releases and offered to put me in contact with various people
and groups related to the claims made in the email text, including AFPM, it sure
looked like a press release. After all, Edelman Public Relations is not working
for The Auto Channel, and I didn't request any information from you prior to
receiving your email, and to the best of my knowledge, Edelman does represent
at least one oil industry organization. So, based upon my 40+ years of personal
hands-on experience in marketing and advertising I would call your email a
'press release.'
However, now knowing that the email was just intended to be a 'media pitch,'
I'm curious as to why you, or others at Edelman, chose to disguise the comments about E15 as if they were written by AAA? I'm also curious to know where
the misinformation about E15 came from? If your email wasn't an official statement from one of Edelman's clients, who on Edelman's staff concocted the lies?
And after reading my editorial responses to the points why haven't you circled
back around to whomever it was that wrote the false and deceitful information
and told them of my comments?"
* Some rubber and metal components used in vehicle engines and drive trains
manufactured prior to the early 1990s may be susceptible to alcohol erosion
and corrosion. It can also be true for other non-automobile engines manufactured before and after the 1990s. It is for this reason that higher ethanol-
