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petroleum products to a net exporter, and U.S. carbon emissions have
reached 25-year lows due primarily to greater use of clean natural gas."
So instead of Hallelujah, I now think, "Oy Vey."
Then it dawned on me that this letter wasn't simply a personal message from
one friend to another, it was just a form letter and it probably went out to API's
entire list of people named Mark, but who spell it with a C instead of a K.
On second thought, I realize the letter was probably sent to everyone on API's
email list, regardless of their name and how they spell it.
Now I get it... Jack was just trying to butter me up before launching into the
same old despicable ignorant lies that the oil industry and the American Petroleum Institute have been telling us for decade after decade. Yeah, yeah, CEO
- Chief Equivocation Originator. No wonder his name was at the bottom of the
letter, it's a fitting title.
Well, while the job title may be correct, nothing else in this letter was. The RFS
doesn't "force increasing amounts of ethanol into the fuel supply each year (regardless of market realities)." The Renewable Fuel Standard called for the use
of a biofuel to be added to gasoline for non-flex fuel vehicles of about 10%.
Ethanol didn't have to be the biofuel, it just happened to be the best, the safest,
and the least expensive to use. And between the time that the RFS was enacted
and today, the mandated percentage has not changed. Therefore, the words
"force increasing amounts of ethanol into the fuel supply each year" is a lie. And
since ethanol did not have to be the biofuel used, it's an exaggerated lie; and
since market realities could have impacted the use of 10% ethanol in the primary internal combustion engine fuel supply, it's an exaggerated lie with a rotten cherry on top.
Jack is worried about "breaching the blend wall," but the blend wall is a scam.
It doesn't exist: It's a scam, wrapped in deceit, inside a fraud - created and
perpetuated by the goons who work for the petroleum oil industry and API.
Every single gasoline-powered passenger vehicle on the road today can safely
and reliably use E15, E20, E25, E30, E35, E40, E45, or E50 or higher. The only
engine and fuel system issue that might occur is that the Check-Engine light
might illuminate, or that the ethanol does such a good job at cleaning the gunkgoo-crap off the engine walls (formed from years of gasoline use) that a filter
might have to be changed. So if all gasoline-powered passenger vehicles can
use blends between E15 and E50 (or higher), then the pretend E10 blend wall
