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Gasolinegate: What's In Our Gasoline is Killing Us
Do you know what’s in your gasoline?
Our addiction to gasoline threatens our lives as we breathe toxic carcinogens in our fuel. For over 100 years, the oil industry duped the public and collaborated with the federal government to protect its gasoline market. As a result, consumers waste billions of dollars, public health is compromised, and the nation remains captive to foreign oil.
Authors Burl Haigwood and Doug Durante tell this story based on over 30 years of working to champion clean fuels to reduce our dependence on oil. With first-hand accounts from Congressional leaders, entrepreneurs, and clean energy supporters, they take you inside the process of government, legislation and regulation, and how it failed the public.
Gasolinegate is a must-read for anyone who cares about the environment and health care, the price of gasoline, the future of biotechnology, and how many pounds of toxic emissions we ingest daily. It’s more than you eat, drink, or think.
Gasolinegate will help you understand how and why the public got duped into believing gasoline was safe and there were no alternatives.
Our addiction to gasoline threatens our lives as we breathe toxic carcinogens in our fuel. For over 100 years, the oil industry duped the public and collaborated with the federal government to protect its gasoline market. As a result, consumers waste billions of dollars, public health is compromised, and the nation remains captive to foreign oil.
Authors Burl Haigwood and Doug Durante tell this story based on over 30 years of working to champion clean fuels to reduce our dependence on oil. With first-hand accounts from Congressional leaders, entrepreneurs, and clean energy supporters, they take you inside the process of government, legislation and regulation, and how it failed the public.
Gasolinegate is a must-read for anyone who cares about the environment and health care, the price of gasoline, the future of biotechnology, and how many pounds of toxic emissions we ingest daily. It’s more than you eat, drink, or think.
Gasolinegate will help you understand how and why the public got duped into believing gasoline was safe and there were no alternatives.
338 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 7, 2023
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December 27, 2024
I was gifted this book by one of the authors, Burl Haigwood, and it’s my pleasure to be the first to review it here on Goodreads.
First off, this is not the kind of book I typically read. I’m more of a fantasy/sci-fi/fiction kind of guy, so this was way out of my comfort zone. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it. Some thoughts:
This book is dense. Tons of information. Definitely not for the faint of heart. It gives a solid defense of the use of the renewable biofuel ethanol as an alternative to the (quite harmful) “aromatics/BTEX” that otherwise provides the octane power in our gasoline. (This is the part that, as I understand it, used to be lead before we realized *that* was (also) poison.)
I came away from this book with a much better understanding of:
- Ethanol’s costs and benefits
- The EPA’s incompetence/negligence over the decades
- The harmful effects of BTEX, specially benzene
- The gaslighting campaign the oil industry has waged against the use of ethanol
My main critiques of the book are how repetitive it got at times and a few run-on sentences that were difficult to decipher.
Thanks to Mr. Haigwood for the copy of the book. I look forward to discusssing it with you next time you’re in town.
Overall Rating: 4/5 ⛽️ (B)
First off, this is not the kind of book I typically read. I’m more of a fantasy/sci-fi/fiction kind of guy, so this was way out of my comfort zone. Nevertheless, I enjoyed it. Some thoughts:
This book is dense. Tons of information. Definitely not for the faint of heart. It gives a solid defense of the use of the renewable biofuel ethanol as an alternative to the (quite harmful) “aromatics/BTEX” that otherwise provides the octane power in our gasoline. (This is the part that, as I understand it, used to be lead before we realized *that* was (also) poison.)
I came away from this book with a much better understanding of:
- Ethanol’s costs and benefits
- The EPA’s incompetence/negligence over the decades
- The harmful effects of BTEX, specially benzene
- The gaslighting campaign the oil industry has waged against the use of ethanol
My main critiques of the book are how repetitive it got at times and a few run-on sentences that were difficult to decipher.
Thanks to Mr. Haigwood for the copy of the book. I look forward to discusssing it with you next time you’re in town.
Overall Rating: 4/5 ⛽️ (B)
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