Congratulations to Al and Barbara Williams for getting into print what I have contended for years. (July 24 letter, “Big oil chooses to keep us enslaved”).
Until Exxon figures out a way to drill a hole in the corn patch, control all aspects of it and make a buck off of it, you will never see large-scale ethanol or hydrogen available as motor fuels.
The oil companies tell us that ethanol is difficult and dangerous to transport – hello! It’s just high-dollar moonshine, not bottles of warm nitro.
An attempt was made a couple of years ago to start an ethanol facility near Twin Falls, Idaho, and the oil companies successfully scared off the farmers from that idea by equating ethanol to being as dangerous as a building a munitions plant next to a forest fire.
William Downing
Everett
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