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my tone and invent new ways to defeat the new telling of the old lies. I stayed
rock solid with the true facts.
If there is one point of this entire book that is worth repeating and remembering
it’s that for several decades while the petroleum oil industry lied to Americans
about the use of ethanol, the oil industry’s biggest and richest companies actively marketed ethanol-gasoline blends as being safer, cleaner, more powerful,
healthier, and more economical than ethanol-free gasoline. The chapter in this
book that deals with this specifically is titled “The Hypocrisy of Big Oil and API.”
I’m not the first to reveal this hypocrisy. Bill Kovarik and his co-authors told this
story in 1982 when they published “The Forbidden Fuel.” Dave Blume has written and talked about this, as has Bob Falco and Michael Carolan, to name a
few advocates of veracity. My contribution to this incredible disclosure is that I
have repeated it anew and married the narrative with additional elements that
were used by the oil industry to aggressively promote ethanol during all those
years.
The bottom line, remember the “tuchas afen tish,” is that we have been lied to,
deceived, dishonored, and poisoned by the oil industry and their cronies. America has been betrayed by the so-called American oil companies. Britain was
betrayed by its oil companies. The Netherlands was betrayed by their oil companies. We fought long wars for them; millions of heroic brothers, sons, and
fathers were sacrificed just so the oil companies could get richer and poison us
more – and as societal roles have expanded, heroic sisters, daughters, and
mothers were also lost as pawns in these wars. It’s gone on long enough.
It's time to stop the lies against ethanol. The information contained in this book
obliterates every single anti-ethanol claim and exaggeration. It's time to hold
the petroleum oil industry accountable for the non-stop death and destruction
that they have wrought for over a hundred years.
It's time to take the shackles off ethanol fuel availability in America. After mandating E25 for a few years in Brazil, they upped the mandate to E27 as their
basic ethanol-gasoline blend, and it has created no problems. Their next step
for them is to move to E40 as their basic fuel. We should be at least on par with
Brazil, although we really should be at the stage I advocated in 2008: that no
new gasoline-powered engines are being manufactured for use in America. All
new internal combustion engines should be running on only E85 to E95. Petroleum oil should be relegated to use only in non-fuel products, and never again
as combustible fuels.
