The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 449
The only people to make out well from an article like Mr. Weinstein's IBD story
is the oil industry. They get to buy a man's life-work for a measly sum and then
turn their collective back on him when someone like myself takes him to
task...and they will abandon him, as they have with all the others they've used.
Of course, destroying the reputation of a man like Mr. Weinstein is irrelevant to
the oil industry because they are responsible for the actual deaths of millions of
humans around the world. What's one more professor to the devils that inculcated two world wars and several major regional armed conflicts?
Here's what he said in his IBD story:
Mr. Weinstein states that one of the problems with the Biofuel mandate is that
oil refiners and importers often have to buy credits in order to comply with their
blending requirements set forth in the biofuel mandate, and that the price of
these credits has jumped markedly over the past year, which will further depress the profitability of those oil industry companies that are struggling with a
global glut of gasoline and diesel. To begin with, the credits are only necessary
because of the oil industry's financial inducements to our politicians to ensure
that gasoline became and remained our primary engine fuel. There was no
practical reason for gasoline to become our primary engine fuel (as I've covered
in many other published articles), and there is no reason for it to be our primary
fuel now. All modern passenger vehicles in the United States (and many other
countries) can use ethanol as their primary fuel. At the most, vehicles manufactured since the mid-1990s would require nothing more than a computer software update to permit an easy and safe transition to E50 or higher ethanolgasoline blends. Such adoption would immediately make it possible to meet all
emission requirements anticipated for the next few decades, right now.
The idea of buying "credits" is as despicable as paying outrageous scalper fees
for entertainment tickets, or outrageous dealer-packs on desirable cars, or egregious prices on popular illicit drugs. Having to worry that ticket scalpers, disreputable car dealers, and dope pushers will have their profits shaved should never
be of concern to the public. Biofuel mandate credits are simply a scammy way
to let the oil industry off the hook for a century of poison. If we're gonna have a
biofuel mandate for health reasons, or for economic reasons, or for environmental reasons, or for all of these reasons combined, then mandate requirements should be MANDATE REQUIREMENTS.
No, Mister Dope Peddler, it's not okay for you to sell cocaine to elementary
school children, regardless of how much money you donate to the school lunch
program. Get it?
