The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 185
The Environmental Protection Agency has been a mixed bag when it
comes to automotive-related environment and health issues. They have
hindered as much or more than they've helped. They have blocked the
acceptance and application of fuels and technology that could have dramatically reduced poisons that spew into the atmosphere and water;
they've supported false studies conducted by the petroleum oil industry
and readily disseminated its incorrect data, and they have helped to establish deceptively irrelevant miles-per-gallon goals for gasoline-powered
internal combustion engines.
As lukewarm as the EPA has been, the California Air Resources Board
has been a total farce. If the members of CARB are not on the direct
payroll of the oil industry, they've acted like they are. Where the EPA only
made the application of affordable alt fuels like CNG outrageously expensive, CARB made it impossible. Where the EPA provided some assistance in helping to advance ethanol acceptance in the American marketplace, CARB has ignored it. I have written about CARB's malevolent
blindness to these fuels on multiple occasions, but CARB continues to
focus and waste money on electric solutions that may never materialize.
Even if electric-powered cars one day become the exclusive vehicles on
the road, we are decades, if not a century or more away from that time.
Meanwhile, CARB will continue to allow poisonous emissions from gasoline and diesel fuel to pour into our air and water. (Read: “California Government Seeks New Ways To Screw Public Using Energy Concerns”)
We are at a point past which the manufacture of all new gasoline-powered
engines should have been discontinued. I wrote about this in
2008. (Read: “NO NEW GASOLINE-POWERED VEHICLES IN THE U.S. BY 2014...”)
We are at a point past which benzene and toluene should have been
completely eliminated in any gasoline blend. I wrote about this again and
again over the years. (Read: “THE OIL INDUSTRY HAS BEEN POISONING US
FOR DECADES”)
Unfortunately, your press release doesn't stop with bestowing unearned
praise on the EPA and CARB, your chief executive makes a ridiculous
statement commending Barack Obama for success in achieving "historic
vehicle efficiency standards" and causing U.S. auto sales to reach record
highs.
Barack Obama was not responsible for any successes, especially not
when it comes to the automobile and transportation industries. While
