On this date, July 5, 2001, Great Lakes Radio Consortium (GLRC) had a piece aired on National Public Radio, where once again "environmentalists" were quoted as being against the enforcement of California Clean Air standards through the use of ethanol over "other" substitutes for MTBE.
A Club Sierra spokeswoman laid claim that there were multiple other gasoline additives that could be used that are more cost effective than ethanol, while achieving the same end result. Claim was also laid that the use of ethanol was going to gouge consumers. Further, the qualifier by the Club Sierra representative was that the purpose of the Clean Air Act was to benefit public health, with the underlying implication that ethanol would not achieve this, or not as readily as the other chemical additives, which conveniently were not identified. To the best of my ability to recollect or discover, Sierra has never openly stated what these other additives are that can achieve the desired effect, only that "they" exist. Perhaps I am the only one, but this is getting a bit old, not only from the perspective of Club Sierra representatives being assigned the spokesperson role by the media which apparently encompasses all environmentalists, but the continual attempt of The Club to disenfranchise biofuels from their viable role in the transportation energy sector. They discount the immediate benefits of biodiesel in favor of a natural gas infrastructure that will take decades to create. They discount ethanol in favor of unnamed chemical additives and the preservation of petrochemical fuels. Someone should ask, based upon their defense of such untenable positions, just who is it that they really serve? For those interested, the GLRC's website is http://www.glrc.org/ The piece mentioned here should be posted in the next day or so. Todd Swearingen Appal Energy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
