Mike Jureidini is Biofuels Consultant for SAFF and South Australia Coordinator for the Biodiesel Association of Australia
Bob Gordon is Executive Directorof the Australian Biofuels Association. >From: "Mike Jureidini \(SAFF\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Fw: Ethanol Media Releases >Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:24:00 +1030 > >Keith, > >Please find attached Media Release from the Australian Biofuels >Association. Should give you an insight as to the depth of what is >going on here. > >I hope to summarise the situation on the biofuels-biz list later >today or tomorrow - once we get some clarity as to what is going on. > >Regards, >Mike > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Robert Gordon >To: >Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 9:54 AM >Subject: Ethanol Media Releases > >Attached are media releases issued yesterday. > >The attachment to the second release was a letter from the auto >repair shop confirming the points made in the first release > >Regards, > >Bob 18 December 2002 Another Dirty Rotting Ethanol Story! Efforts by the Australian Biofuels Association (ABA) to establish the facts associated with another misleading anti-ethanol article by Mike Seccombe of the Sydney Morning Herald has established that today's story about ethanol blended fuel being the cause of damage to the car of a Hurstville resident is another misleading anti-ethanol beat-up. The automotive company named in the article (Neil Streeting Automotive Repairs, South Hurstville) has stated that the story was a misrepresentation of what was said to the Sydney Morning Herald. When contacted by the Association Mr Streeting characterised the article as an "absolute untruth," and that "he had been disgusted over the way what he had said had been misrepresented by the Sydney Morning Herald." Amongst the most serious claims made by Mr Streeting was that: · He had never claimed that the contaminated fuel contained ethanol. This he said could only be established by testing of the fuel. No testing of the fuel in Ms Turner's car had been undertaken. · Mr Streeting never claimed that he had repaired another 10 cars damaged by ethanol · The damage reported in the SMH as having been done to Ms Turner car (damage to cylinder head and walls, and pistons) actually related to another vehicle damaged by petrol contaminated with kerosene a year ago. · Further, the claim that the catalytic converter in Ms Turner's car had also been replaced for the second time is false. It has also been established that the service station that supplied the petrol to Ms Turner was a Caltex service station in Hurstville. A check of producers and suppliers of fuel ethanol has established that Manildra Park Petroleum has supplied no fuel whatsoever this site. "Whatever was put in the Caltex fuel had nothing to do with our industry," Bob Gordon said. "Over recent months there has been a concentrated anti-ethanol campaign waged in the media by the major oil companies - particularly through their lobbyist, the Australian Institute of Petroleum. Scaring the consumer has been the focal point of this campaign, and articles of the kind propagated by the Sydney Morning Herald have contributed significantly to the effectiveness of the AIP's campaign against ethanol," Bob Gordon said. The claim that Manildra, the largest industrial user of wheat in Australia, has or was about to lodge an application for a grain- import permit is a re-hash of an earlier false story pursued by Seccombe and, again, is a false story. For further information contact: Bob Gordon (Executive Director) on (0418) 868 526 Another Dirty Rotting Ethanol Story! Correction 18 December 2002 Mike Seccombe has rightly pointed out that he was not the sole author of the "The tiger in her tank just bit a hole in her budget" article in today's Sydney Morning Herald. The co-author of the article was Philip Cornford. For the record, a copy of a letter from Neil Streeting Automotive Repairs Pty Ltd on the article is also attached for information. Bob Gordon Executive Director Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech: http://archive.nnytech.net/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
