IN DESPERATE TIMES FOLLOW THE MONEY
by Ronald H. Miller Desperate times call for desperate action. That is the situation facing Big Oil at the moment. After spending billions and billions of dollars to extract increasingly expensive oil out of the ground, USEPA is about to hand another 5% market share to its cheaper competitor, ethanol. Time to spend as much money as it takes to destroy the competition. The Coordinating Research Council (CRC), an oil industry front, recently issued a scathing study noting that 15% ethanol blends (E-15) are far more damaging and constitute a safety problem as compared to E-10, or good old E-0 which hasn't been seen in years. Never mind that NASCAR runs on E-15 and Indy Race Cars run on E-100. Never mind that Brazil has been running successfully on E-25 for over 3 decades. Never mind that USDOE, with significantly more test data on E-15, quickly debunked the CRC study noting their flawed science. It's an embarrassment for an industry that historically has relied on sol