The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 534
In your story, you report that "The boating industry
has identified biobutanol as a suitable and safe alternative to ethanol, which can damage engines, including those that power recreational boats." When
they and you say that biobutanol is a safe alternative
to ethanol, what do you mean by safe? Are you sug"And they say it's safe!
gesting that you can rub biobutanol over your
Hahahahahaha."
hands? Are you suggesting that you can drink biobutanol? In case you don't know, you can't because butanol (regardless of the
raw material used to create it) is highly toxic - so to whom is it a safe alternative?
You can drink ethanol. You can rub ethanol on your body. You can use ethanol
to clean an open skin wound. Sure, ethanol can be made poisonous by denaturizing it with gasoline, but that's because of the gasoline, not the ethanol.
In reporting the statement "The boating industry has identified biobutanol as a
suitable and safe alternative to ethanol..." don't you know that the boating industry has already stated that ethanol-gasoline blends are better than ethanolfree gasoline and that it can be used in marine engines? Are you unaware of
the statements made by Mercury Marine, the world's largest manufacturer of
marine engines, that E10 will not cause any engine damage? Did you not know
that Mercury Marine and many other marine engine manufacturers sell their
engines and boats in Brazil where standard fuel is E27? Are you in possession
of any documents from Brazil that show E27 to be specifically damaging to marine or automobile engines?
And when you report "damage," did you ask anyone what they mean by damage? You use the words "damage," "damaging," "corrosive," and "harmful effects." Like what? You quote John McKnight, of the National Marine Manufacturers Association as saying that they tested E15 and that they "helped conduct
a number of tests on the effects of 15-percent ethanol blends on the engines in
collaboration with the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and
we have pictures. They just blew up...I mean, they could not run through a normal durability cycle on E15."
What tests is he talking about? What year were those tests? Where is the report
of those tests? Where are the pictures? What does he mean that they just blew
up? WHAT BLEW UP? DID SOMETHING ACTUALLY EXPLODE?
By the way, I'm not saying that butanol is a bad fuel for internal combustion
engines, but I have trouble understanding why America and the world would
want to use another poisonous fuel made by the oil industry when we have the
opportunity to finally get away from that? Why do we need more neurotoxins in
