The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 475
Unmasking The Gas Roots of Contemporary Ethanol
Opposition - Round 2
Breaking the ring of Big Oil sponsored deception, link by link
Originally published April 21, 2017
Hot on the heels of Economist-Professor Bill Shughart publishing his mendacious editorial ("How The Ethanol Mandate Is Killing The American Prairie"),
comes another dishonest anti-ethanol commentary by yet another "economistprofessor" of destinktion* armed with his own version of subjective impressions,
out of context references, and incorrect analysis of ethanol and the Renewable
Fuels Standard.
Hopefully, you'll recall that my rebuttal to "Billy the Kid" Shughart corrected his
statements and unmasked him for his participation in the decades-long effort
by the Tobacco industry to keep poisoning the public.
This new anti-ethanol editorial comes from Gary Wolfram, Professor in Economics and Public Policy at Hillsdale College. I have already emailed Mr. Wolfram to ask if he was a member of the Tobacco Cash-For-Comments Network
or any similar oil industry sponsored group of academics. Although he did respond to other points I made in my email to him, he did not address this specific
issue. However, regardless of whether Mr. Wolfram is a card-carrying member
of a Cash-For-Comments-Oil Industry-Network, or not, he still performs as if he
