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and AAA on these warnings in an editorial I wrote that was published on
TheAutoChannel.com on January 8, 2013, and subsequently widely republished on other websites. (AAA Blunder on Ethanol Sets Off Firestorm of Criticism)
Despite assurance from AAA that they would respond to the points we made in
that editorial, we have received no further information from them. A few weeks
ago, on April 26th, just a couple of days before I went to Washington DC to help
give a presentation about E15 to a Congressional Staffer meeting, I reminded
AAA that I was still waiting for some explanation to the wrong information contained in the winter warnings. The same head of AAA public affairs said he
would get back to me in two weeks. Four weeks have gone by since that promise, and more than four months since the earlier promise.
Fox News has never replied, in any manner.
And now, the update:
After we initially published this editorial on Thursday morning I was informed
that the AAA Memorial Day press release didn't actually come from AAA; seems
it was issued by American Fuel and Petroleum Manufacturers, a big oil pro advocacy group headed by Charlie Drevna. Apparently, AFPM took some information from AAA and used it in a press release to make it look like it was from
AAA and thereby give the overall information an air of objectivity. Sounds like
the kind of misrepresentation and sleazy PR stunts that I've known Drevna and
his group likes to do going into a holiday weekend.... Hey Charlie, thanks for
the confirmation of your lack of ethics.
For more on Drevna and AFPM see AFPM Issues Panic-Stricken Warning
Against Ethanol to Keep America Addicted to Foreign Oil.
So I say to AAA, AFPM, the American Petroleum Institute, and to all the other
entities that the oil industry pays to create and disseminate negative ethanol
information: If this is merely a case where you have been caught telling lies in
an effort to keep America chained to gasoline and to keep ripping off the public,
you have no need to reply.
If you really think you are not lying and you have any serious and reliable information that substantiates any of the negative things you claim about ethanol
please let us know what it is. We are not on anyone’s payroll. If gasoline is the
