So how long do we have to wait for you to cut to the chase about the actual results of your work or is that a political decision? The way I read history, Einstein was quite the activist as were many of the scientists of his era. That’s why we’re not ruled by tyrants right now while we still have a Constitution and Bill of Rights between us and our leaders in Washington, because scientists used to have a collective moral conscience that prevented them from blindly following political leaders.
Have the current prodigies of science forgotten the lessons of their mentors? Do you really want to be remembered as having served at the pleasure of elected officials and our financial masters on Wall Street who can’t even balance their bank books anymore? Or would you rather earn your posterity being the representatives of truth and facts while supporting a positive future for mankind rather than bowing to a handful of men with questionable levels of intelligence and motives for what they do with the information you produce for them?
Let me give you a little background on the oxygenate program that was used to force ethanol on the American people in 2006. Ethanol replaced MTBE. In the Clean Air Act debate of 1990, the members of the scientific community weighting in on the legitimacy of oxygenates added to gasoline were reluctant to support it because of concerns for the effect MTBE and ethanol might have on the environment and atmosphere. So the first Bush president said he would appoint a task force to answer their questions and would later support a polymer additive to gasoline that these same scientists were in favor of if their suspicions about oxygenates were confirmed. So they agreed to support the Clean Air Act under those conditions.
But no investigation was ever done on the negative effects of MTBE while later nothing could done to stop it once a trillion dollar loan was taken out to build MTBE refineries, much like what they’ve done investing so much of the American peoples future in ethanol over the last couple years without first having an intelligent honest debate about it. So you already know not to trust Washington and especially Bush when presenting your scientific responsibly to the American people when it comes to this issue. In fact if it hadn’t been for old man Bush letting Saddam Hussein invade Kuwait, the American people would have known about the objections of the scientific community to oxygenates. But they never heard about it because the news media was focused elsewhere.
911 happened just as the story about MTBE effecting weather patterns was about to break, just before Enron came apart. As we invaded Iraq in March of 2003, congress was using its beginning as cover to try and pass a liability waiver for MTBE producers knowing the news media was busy elsewhere. The waiver appeared to be about groundwater MTBE polluted nationwide but also put the burden of damages caused by it effects on climate and human health on the American taxpayer.
Even the financial disaster we’re experiencing now started when the discontinued use of MTBE caused the trillion dollar loan, money that was stolen from the Soviet Union at the end of the cold war and deposited in Swiss banks, that financed MTBE’s evolution from an octane booster to an oxygenate went into default. The loan wasn’t actually used to directly finance MTBE refineries but to build a financial house of cards that MTBE supporters on Wall Street and in Washington had, and still have, easy access to being able to use as long as they supported and continue to support the governments policies that keep this scam from surfacing before the American people. MTBE profits laundered through Enron and then USBW were intended to keep this corrupt system propped up just like payments on low rated mortgages were expected to keep the US economy from failing.
I think you have something very serious to say to the American people and I think you believe you have already said it. I respect very much that you made it this far in publishing your work considering how corrupt Washington is right now. But you need to do more. You need to stand up for what you believe in to drown out James Hansen and Al Gore. All you’re doing is putting something in the record that’s not being paid the kind of attention it deserves where you can later say I told you so when what ethanol is doing to weather patterns melts enough methane hydrates to set off an atmospheric chain reaction that teaches the human race the hard way what long and short term gases can do to our climate, that is if there’s anyone left to say it to when the sky finally falls on all of us.
Sincerely,
Bobby Fontaine
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