The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 461
The obvious intention in my response to Mr. Green is that footnoting a paper
with irrelevant attributions and wrong or unfounded information does not make
the paper true and authoritative. He did nothing but assemble some bad information that happened to fit the requirements handed down to him from the oil
industry and AEI.
As I wrote above, Kenneth Green is not the first person to rely on Robert Bryce
and assume that he vetted the information he included in GUSHER OF LIES.
To make matters worse, none of them conducted any of their own research. I
doubt they even ever tried running a vehicle on any ethanol-gasoline blend
higher than standard E10.
All this reliance and reconsideration of Robert Bryce made me go back and take
another look at Mr. Bryce's background. He is today said to be an energy expert.
In reading his articles and book, and watching videos he appeared in 6, 8, 10
years ago, he was introduced even then as an energy expert. But was he an
energy expert?
Reading Robert Bryce's bio on Wikipedia it states that he's written about energy
issues for more than two decades. This sounds pretty good, but then it turns
out he was really just a general news reporter for The Austin Chronicle from
about 1994 to 2006. He did some energy-related stories, but he also did other
stories, such as stories about Madalyn Murray O'Hair. However, I don't think
that Mr. Bryce considers himself an expert on atheism, cults, or kidnapping.
In or about 2006 he went to work as the managing editor of Energy Tribune
(now defunct). He doesn't seem to have been the energy expert, or one of the
energy experts, at Energy Tribune; he simply managed the workflow of those
who might have laid legitimate claim to being an energy expert.
After about one year or so at Energy Tribune he wrote GUSHER OF LIES. From
reading the book, you get no sense that he conducted any of his own scientific
or hands-on research. So how was he an energy expert at the time of writing
GUSHER OF LIES. Mr. Bryce did spend about five months also working for
Robert Bradley at the Institute for Energy Research during some of the time he
was working on the book, but how much could he have learned in 5 months.
Not only that but from my own personal correspondence with Robert Bradley,
Mr. Bradley confessed that there are significant details related to ethanol that
he never knew and never included in his own published works.
