The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 593
TRUTH ABOUT ETHANOL
The Book Within This Book
Review and Reply to Robert Bryce's GUSHER OF LIES… A Book That's
Aptly Named for What It Is
PART 4
I GOT YOUR RELIGION RIGHT HERE
Joseph Goebbels, the infamous minister of propaganda for the Nazis, used a
technique that has become known as “doublespeak,” which is defined as evasive language that says one thing but means another, usually the opposite.
Due to the over-lapping of time, there’s a question as to whether the oil industry
was guilty of doublespeak first or if the oil industry simply adopted the technique
from the Nazis. Given that Standard Oil began their propaganda against ethanol
shortly after the passage of the FREE ALCOHOL bill in 1906, and that they later
engaged in un-American activities with the Nazis before and after our entry into
World War II, perhaps Goebbels learned his craft from the oil industry.
In any event, no group or entity has mastered doublespeak like Big Oil and its
shills: From accusing ethanol of causing the engine problems that gasoline is
actually guilty of, right up to and including Bryce’s comment that “Ethanol isn’t
a motor fuel. It’s religion.”
