The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 470
I'd say that if there is a "lack of common sense problem," that there's also a
"lack of truth problem," and that they exist within the oil industry and the lackeys
who write editorials on their behalf.
On top of this, you and your oil-sponsored mouthpiece cohorts also obviously
lack historical perspective on the entire issue. You exhibit no knowledge of how
and why gasoline and diesel fuel became our primary engine fuels. Do you let
your students get away without having any foundation when they express their
opinions in written papers or oral exams? You write about the possibility of extracting oil from the tar sands, but the photographs show how high the environmental cost would be. When you raise the specter of environmental disasters,
you are automatically invoking the petroleum oil industry. Additionally, the actual cost at the pump for fuels made from tar sand oil would be far higher than
ethanol.
Tar sands oil field
You write about subsidies given to the ethanol industry, but you fail to mention
the subsidies that have been given to the oil industry for more than 100 years
and are many times greater per year than any ethanol subsidies.
Your bio identifies you as the Research Director of an Oakland, Californiabased think tank, the Independent Institute. How about doing some real research into the issue? How about actually doing some independent thinking
about the issue before regurgitating the lies told to you by the oil industry?
