Another Dirty Secret of Oil Dependence
Submitted by joanne on August 31, 2010 – 7:35 amNo Comment
by Jim DiPeso (The Daily Green) The hidden health threat (and $100 billion annual cost) in the gasoline we pump into our cars.
…China supplanted the U.S. as the biggest energy consuming country in the world. China’s growth, along with India’s, is a signal of the tough competition for oil that the U.S. will be up against as Asian demand rises and global dependence grows on giant oil reserves in the Middle East, the world’s roughest neighborhood.
…The story is being told by Jim Woolsey, a former CIA director, and C. Boyden Gray, who served as counsel in the George H.W. Bush administration …Woolsey and Gray argue that EPA has attacked toxins from industry, but has not done enough about the toxins found in motor fuels.
…Woolsey and Gray estimate that toxins in gasoline result in health and environmental damage that costs $100 billion per year.
… Gray and Woolsey point out that ethanol could substitute as an octane booster without aromatics’ toxic and particulate pollution baggage. READ MORE
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