The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 376
Yes, I can express myself better, and I did so in the very long aforementioned
2013 editorial, which you can read by going back about 50 pages. The reason
I'm using “stupid” so liberally is because I believe in the power of single words
to create a mood or to express a complex thought that would otherwise require
many words or even several paragraphs to describe. Therefore, "stupid" says
it all, and if you read the 2013 editorial I'm confident that you'll come away saying: AAA was stupid, FOX and Ms. Francis were stupid, and Lauren Fix was
stupid. For the sake of brevity, I will use "stupid" many times in the ensuing
paragraphs.
At the time that The Auto Channel published the story, I sent Ms. Fix several
emails questioning her on your statements, and then alerting her to my editorial.
I gave her abundant opportunity to respond and either provide supportive information for her stupid comments or to recant the comments. She has never responded. Moreover, while we had often received press releases or stories from
Ms. Fix for publication on TACH, she stopped sending us anything.
On a number of occasions, I've been at automotive press events at the same
time as Ms. Fix, and we were often in very close proximity (sometimes only one
seat away). She's never taken the opportunity to say anything to me, or to make
any finger-hand gesture - at least she hasn't to my knowledge. I mention this
just to make it clear that she had exceedingly ample opportunity to respond or
explain. Hey, maybe I'm the one who's wrong about ethanol? You'd think that
since she's The Car Coach that if I was wrong that she would coach me on the
truth.
In any event, here we are, more than two and a half years later, and I find out
that Ms. Fix was recently a guest on an online radio show called "The Jacki
Daily Show," hosted by a very attractive woman named Jacki Pick.
Ms. Pick has a very impressive resume. She's an attorney; she's served on
some Congressional committees in Washington; she has two decades of experience directly related to energy and the environment, and she was a vice president of a national bank. WOW!
So, I made myself a Yankee-rita (that's a Margarita with American-made corn
whisky instead of Tequila), sat down at the computer, and typed in The Jacki
Daily Show URL. I was looking forward to hearing if Lauren Fix learned anything
since her FOX-News appearance (I was even imagining that I'd hear Ms. Fix
say something like "Thanks to Marc Rauch and The Auto Channel, I now know
that I was wrong about ethanol").
