The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 504
Lobbying is not an illegal activity, but if spending $1 million per year on lobbying
is bad, how atrocious is spending $65 million per year on lobbying?
Mr. Hilton "exposes" the two U.S. Senators, Grassley, and Ernst, for taking
money from the ethanol lobby. There are 100 U.S. Senators. The website
OpenSecrets.org lists 95 U.S. Senators who accepted lobbying money from the
oil industry in 2016. If two Senators accepting lobbyist money is bad, how disgusting is 95 Senators accepting money from Big Oil lobbyists?
To paraphrase something else that Hilton says in this video, if you want a textbook example of how a fake story makes it to broadcast or publication on a
news media outlet, this is it.
But still, he's not finished, Steve still has about 90 seconds of junk information
to peddle.
He bemoans the poor small oil refiners who have to go out of their way to buy
and blend ethanol into their poison gasoline blend. I agree that it was probably
more profitable for them when all they had to do was use tetra-ethyl lead...So
what if millions of people are developing respiratory illnesses, and if more and
more children are developing autism. Breathing is overrated anyway, plus look
at all the carbon dioxide emissions that breathing creates. If we can get everyone to exhale only after every other breath we could make a serious dent in
CO2 pollution. By the way, this paragraph is what "taking the piss out of something" is all about.
Steve Hilton closes out the video by calling Joni Ernst a pig and a stooge. He
doesn't use that description on the 95 Senators who accepted oil industry
money, and he doesn't consider that the 95 were stooges for the oil industry.
I'm glad that Steve Hilton worked in the circus tableau in his report because he
unwittingly gives insight to the job he should really have. He should be the baldheaded geek in the side show who bites off the heads of chickens.
If you want to drain the swamp, you have to get rid of the cause of the swamp.
The swamp is caused by the purveyors of that gooey, smelly, war-inciting gunk
called petroleum oil.
January 7, 2018 Update
Tonight, Steve Hilton took off on the petroleum oil industry. Perhaps my harsh
criticism of him and the ignorant comments he made about ethanol a few weeks
