The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 433
You guys act like you're getting paid by the petroleum oil industry to invent
and disseminate lies. Oh, I hope I didn't touch an exposed nerve.
I think your organization is fraudulent. I think Dr. Ugarte's report is specious. Prove me wrong. Debate me. Debate my team against yours.
America's future is at stake, the free world's future is at stake. If you care
enough to spend time creating and disseminating lies about this issue,
then step up and put the oil industry's money where your mealy-mouths
are, debate the issue in a public nationally televised forum. Let's do it
before November so that the politicians will have a clear and deciding
understanding of the issue.
This time I expect a reply.
As usual, I cc'd this email to several of the incredible fuel/energy people I know.
Here's a reply I received from Steven Vander Griend of Urban Air Initiative and
ICM Inc.:
"Marc - Thank you for writing these folks. I find it interesting they only look
at the data they want to and totally ignore reality.
“I find no mention about the protein value and just wonder how they can
think cellulosic is better. We can exceed 50 percent feeding value to livestock from an acre of corn and still take all that starch to ethanol.
“Last week I was talking to an agronomist here in Kansas. Technology
has come a long way and even with increased yields per acre, fertilizer
application is down per acre so how can these guys claim all the increase.
“These guys totally ignore the fuel benefits as well and would assume
they are drinking the Kool-aide of API and the manipulated vehicle studies. If they only knew the truth that many of us can blend test fuels to
either make ethanol look good or have ethanol look worse. It’s all about
who control the fuel blending who then also controls the outcome of the
study.
“They should look at the octane value but I am sure they would just assume it is to technical. That 1 gallon of ethanol can displace 2 gallons of
aromatics as it relates to octane. They just think ethanol is less efficient
because ethanol has less energy per gallon but automotive studies show
that based on energy, ethanol burn 3 to 6 percent more efficiently. If they
