Oil companies fueling myths about clean burning ethanol fuel
The whole World is starting to look into alternative fuel sources. This new fuel source rush is worrying the oil industry because they are the only ones who are war profiteering from the Bush administration's wars. Just look who tops the Fortune 500 lists. Former World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz in a report by Britain's Guardian Unlimited News Service in their June, 2003 article titled "Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil", and which says: "Oil was the main reason for military action against Iraq", confirming the worst fears of those opposed to the US-led war. So what can you expect from the oil industry in response to renewal energy sources that could easily put them out of business? The oil industry has launched a campaign against all energy sources that are not oil based. They are forced to take from their profits to finance bogus and fraudulent ads and research reports against clean burning fuels like hydrogen and ethanol. They are using their paid for and biased falsified reports to create myths.
Myths 1 and 2 - Ethanol will create a food shortage. Ethanol is making food more scarce and therefore expensive.
Those people in the oil industry live in mega cities and they don't have a clue as to how they get the food on their table. City people still don't have a clue as to where an egg comes from. City people gorge down hamburgers not realizing that the beef was once the flesh of a living breathing farm animal. Oil industry people pay people to work for them including buy their groceries. They are beginning to notice a rise in food costs so they are now fueling the myth that ethanol made from corn is what is eating into their salaries and the salaries of everyone around the World. The actual price increase in food is a direct result of these oil industry executives manipulating the market by suggesting that corn is now in short supply so they inflate stocks prices for corn and other vegetables (which most are not even used to make ethanol). They are the ones directly responsible for putting the fear in the market and as a result prices rises and people can no longer afford their inflated pricing. You have to be from the country to know that there is not now and never will be a shortage of corn or other grains because of ethanol fuel. There is in fact an increase in supply in corn and other crops because of ethanol. Farmers are not using their regular crops to supply the stock for making ethanol. Farmers are actually using farm fields that have not been used for decades to supply the demand for ethanol. The farms are now using their farms' full potential to supply food for us to eat as well as corn for fuel for our vehicles. I know this for a fact because I live in the country where your food is grown. I also lived for 20 years in the mega city of Toronto, Ontario Canada.
Farmers have been trying to make a decent living but for decades there hasn't been a big demand for crops that will sustain their farming operations. Farmer's fields were starting to be taken back by Mother Nature because the fields were not being tended to for crops and money wasn't available to upkeep them. Today instead of planting the usual 100 acres for crops farmers are planting 200 acres. For those in the oil industry and in the stock market who don't have a clue, that means crop output has doubled not declined. That means that there is twice as much crops available than before. That means 100% increase in supply. More supply than demand results in a decline in price not an increase. So the next time you see the price of food go up you now know who is to blame - the oil industry. The stock of food has increased. Not all farmers are going to have their harvest bought and used for ethanol - it just isn't possible. In Canada there has always been a surplus of grains now there is a surplus of corn. With a surplus there is no justification for an increase of any kind. The oil industries' myths are solely responsible for any increase in price for your food. They are the ones who are declaring a shortage when they know there is actually more than the demand. If you want the real story - the facts - take a trip to the country and talk with the people who are providing your food. The farmers will tell you that ethanol is good for you the consumer and for them too. They can show you fields that are still not touched even after planting extra crops to supply more food for your tables and now stock for clean fuel for your cars and SUVs. They can show you the truth.
Myth 3 - Ethanol is just as dirty as oil.
The oil industry declaration that ethanol is just as dirty as oil is simply more of the same old George W BS. Clean fuels like ethanol and hydrogen have no CO2 emissions. The byproduct of hydrogen fuel is water vapor. The same goes for ethanol. The byproduct of oil is and always will be carbon dioxide gas. The oil industry knows this. Governments know this. Again profits are at risk for the oil industry so they are attacking facts with fraudulent reports. They are attacking ethanol and other clean burning fuels by conducting their tests whereby they add the clean burning fuel like ethanol to their fuel. One drop of oil or gasoline is all it takes to contaminate 1 liter, 1 gallon or a tank of clean fuel like hydrogen or ethanol. It is a scientific fact that oil and water don't mix. The same applies to oil and hydrogen or oil and ethanol.
In order to do a proper test the ethanol can only be added to a brand new vehicle with a brand new fuel tank, pump, fuel lines, fuel injectors and engine - the entire fuel system. The test facilities must acquire a vehicle that is taken directly from the assembly line - before gasoline is added to drive it off the assembly line. Draining the fuel from a car that has been using gasoline (even a cup full) and adding ethanol contaminates and voids the test from the start.
Oil refineries that are claiming that they are adding ethanol to their fuel so that the fuel burns cleaner are doing so just to justify an increase in fuel cost. There is nothing you can add to gasoline to make it burn cleaner. The majority of fuel in the tank (over 99%) will still be gasoline which has already been confirmed to be the source of very high CO2 emissions. There are things you can add to gasoline to make it burn quicker though and this is what they are adding - again to make more profits. By adding a fuel additive to the gasoline to make it burn hotter and quicker will always results in you burning more fuel than before - only quicker. So before when there was just regular gas with no additives you were able to drive a certain distance before you had to fill-up again. Now the refineries are adding chemical "blends" to their gasoline to make it burn quicker so that you aren't able to drive as far as before.
The undeniable truth about ethanol is its renewable and healthy for the environment. Another major benefit of planting and growing more crops is air quality. It is a scientific fact that all plants give off oxygen - plants produce the air we breathe. Without plants there would be no oxygen, no atmosphere, no life on Earth. More green leave crops actually filter the harmful carbons from the air. The more green plants there are throughout the World the more fresh clean oxygen is being produced.
