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your boat on the Gulf using E15, you'd have to first travel through Louisiana and
Mississippi to get to Alabama. And let's say you live in Florida or Alabama, what
do you think the chances are of finding an E15 pump at a marina in either of
those states? I don't know the answer, but I'm guessing 0%. So how likely are
you to be stuck in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico because you put E15 in the
fuel tank: 0% would be my guess again.
At this point I had to go back and re-read Ms. Pick's resume because I think,
"either the corn whisky in my Yankee-rita was too strong, or it wasn't strong
enough."
Ms. Pick closes out her monologue by casting doubt as to whether anyone in
the government is an expert on the subject. She then uses this as the bridge to
introduce Lauren Fix, who she says is an expert on the subject, and she calls
her "America's Top Woman in Car Care, Education, and Auto Industry News;
as well as being an "Automotive Expert."
Ms. Fix comes on the show and immediately says that "this is a very serious
subject" and that she's been "fighting it for years." Based upon her on-air comments two years ago on FOX-News she must mean that she's been lying about
the subject for years.
I don't know how much Ms. Fix knows about car care; she may be the best car
detailer in the world. She may be able to refill window washing solution in record
time. But I will tell you this, if you can use her knowledge of ethanol as the
benchmark of what she knows about the automotive industry, then Lauren Fix
is America's Stupidest Woman in Car Care, Education, and Auto Industry News.
Wait, I take that back. I don't want to let this be a gender issue. This is bigger
than just a male-female argument. I should say that if you can use her
knowledge of ethanol as the benchmark, then Lauren Fix is America's Stupidest
Person in Car Care, Education, and Auto Industry News. Maybe she's the stupidest automotive person in the entire English-speaking world? How can she
be an expert when she doesn't know what she's talking about?
Lauren Fix then immediately says "ethanol is so damaging to your vehicle" and
that "we don't use it in race cars." Let me repeat that, Ms. Fix says that "ethanol
is so damaging to your vehicle...that we don't use it in race cars."
Lauren Fix is supposed to be "America's Top Woman in Care, Education and
Auto Industry News and Automotive Expert," but she doesn't know that ethanol
fuels have been used in race cars for nearly a century and a half. For the past
