The Ethanol Papers - Paperturn manuscript - Flipbook - Page 208
Corn ethanol is often distilled using coal as a heat source.
Corn ethanol distillers exhaust high levels of VOCs pollution.
Reply from MARC
Hi Erocker All of your points are either outright lies, gross exaggerations, or just plain irrelevant. I presume you found this list somewhere and have merely re-posted it.
If you created the list on your own and posted it in an attempt to make a personal
statement, then you are simply trying to deceive other readers.
To another person named 'Carney' you wrote "You are so into your corn ethanol
lobby lies you actually cannot see the truth when it is presented to you." Actually, Erocker, you are so into your anti-ethanol lies that you don't know the truth.
If you're interested, a very good place to start is my 60+ page report: "TRUTH
ABOUT ETHANOL - Book Review and Reply to Robert Bryce's GUSHER OF
LIES." (Editor's note: the entire report is contained in this book).
The only individual point that I don't address in the 60+ page report is the issue
of ethanol being corrosive. I didn't address it because it was not discussed in
the Robert Bryce book I was reviewing. In any event, of course ethanol is corrosive, it's a solvent. Among other benefits, ethanol is used to clean engines.
But everything is corrosive: Gasoline is corrosive, the wind is corrosive, and
water may be one of the most corrosive substances of all. So to state an obvious characteristic and include it in a list to denigrate ethanol is meaningless. All
corrosive substances and forces (wind) can be mitigated or eliminated entirely
by the use of materials that are resistant to the corrosive substance.
I'd be happy to continue this conversation with you once you've read my report.
But if all you're going to do is just reply with the same hollow generic statements
then you should save your energy.
