The Sierra Club is against YOU everyone is a member of the Sierra Club except YOU YOU will be assimilated or eliminated. Seriously though, I don't know who the Sierra club publicly supports, probably some celebrities or something. I was in a mountain biking newsgroup a few years back, and the Sierra Club was quite concerned over the errosion the mountain bike tires caused. They seriously need to get something out of their.. well I mean they hold their heads high sometimes ;) -Martin Klingensmith
--- Appal Energy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ 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/
