The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 323
Big Oil's Anti-E15 Campaign Filled with Gross
Exaggerations and Misinformation
The people who rammed lead down our throats for nearly a century,
and denied it was harmful, have a new story to peddle
Originally published May 16, 2012
A bit more than 18-months ago, the EPA issued a study finding and held a
teleconference to announce that after evaluation they determined that E15 engine fuel (15% ethanol mixed with 85% gasoline) had the same effects on
spark-induced internal combustion engine vehicles manufactured after 2007 as
E10 engine fuel (10% ethanol mixed with 90% gasoline), which in a word were
"none."
• Listen to the complete October 2010 EPA press conference
The oil and gasoline industry, along with all their paid politicians and media
personalities became apoplectic. They issued press release after press release
denouncing the EPA announcement in which they repeated their tired rhetoric
about how harmful ethanol can be to automobile engines and challenged the
EPA's authority to take on the study and then pronounce E15 ready for prime
time. Big oil claimed that the EPA did not do sufficient testing and that their
