The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 472
My response to Reply #1
Hi Bill I greatly appreciate your reply. I'll be adding it, my response, and any additional
comments you'll make to the story.
All of my writings regarding ethanol and the automobile industry are peer-reviewed. I'd be happy to provide a list of those peers who regularly review my
work. Like you, I also use U.S. government sources for data, whenever it's relevant and available. If you have a particular question as to where a specific
piece of information I used originates, please ask. In the instance of my referring
to subsidies given to the oil industry, I am providing an abbreviated list below.
In regard to your use of peer-reviewed literature, I'm wondering if you can help
identify which literature you are referring to that helped you to form your opinions, and who the peers were who reviewed it. I saw no list of any peer-reviewed
literature attached to your Investor's Business Daily editorial. The only thing I
found by doing an Internet search of your name was the anti-ethanol editorial
you wrote in March 2013 for McClatchy Newspapers, which was virtually identical to the new IBD editorial (and it also lacked any reference list). I particularly
ask about the peer-reviewed literature in light of the findings published on the
SourceWatch.org website that identify you as a "major figure in the Cash For
Comments Economist Network..." and that you "...played a you-scratch-myback/peer-review game where each would generate favourable 'peer reviews'
of each other's work." I'm sure you'll agree that this information is in sharp contradiction to your comment that your "opinions never have been bought."
Regards.
Abbreviated list of links related to oil/gasoline subsidies
• http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/business/04bptax.html
• http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa390.pdf
• https://www.eli.org/research-report/estimating-us-government-subsidies-energysources-2002-2008
• http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/spn/2010/spn1005.pdf
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies
• https://blumenauer.house.gov/energy-issues#fossil
• http://merkley.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=F68FED0D-08C0-4DC49035-211E28DD9B7E
• http://blog.ucsusa.org/jim-kliesch/oil-industry-subsidies-are-anything-butrosy?_ga=1.161769531.686943746.1492723673
