do I really have to say it???
Posted on 02/01/2015 6:28:47 PM PST by george76
A study paid for by the Michigan Corn Growers Association was recently reported in the news media as though it had been conducted independently. This public relations coup for the ethanol industry was pulled off by touting it as “a Michigan State University study” and omitting the fact that it was done on behalf of the Michigan Corn Growers Association. Reporters then assumed it was an academic study conducted independently of the ethanol industry.
On Dec. 17, Michigan Capitol Confidential asked MSU spokesman Jason Cody if the study “Greenhouse Gas Reduction in Michigan Due to Ethanol Fuel Use,” was an MSU study.
Cody’s response: “Yes, this was an MSU study conducted by researchers here on campus that focused on greenhouse-gas emission reductions due to ethanol fuel use in Michigan. The study found substantial reductions in emissions.”
On Jan. 26, after receiving a tip from a source, Michigan Capitol Confidential asked Cody if the Michigan Corn Growers Association had paid for the study.
“Yes, it is my understanding they did,” Cody replied.
It could be argued that if the Michigan Corn Growers Association paid for it, the study was an “industry study” that should never be referred to as an “MSU study.” However, there are no hard rules that cover such terminological distinctions.
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What a surprise THAT is!
Other revelations of a similar nature should be unfolding shortly
MI ping.
do I really have to say it???
Yeah what a surprise. I am so over these infomercial studies.
Im trying to find an adequate..analogy.
a Presidential Popularity Poll run by Obie’s crew...is close...
infomercial...is RIght!
like the chemical waste producers...who got california to put MTBE in its gasoline....paying for a “study” to prove...how Pure...and CLEAN it was...
I’m sure the windmill producers council will have something for us shortly.
Yes,...a study done at the behest of the WIndmill Producers Council by The University Of Michigan perhaps...
I find those scholarly dissertations so refreshing...
ADM is the gargantuan elephant in the room. Their fingers are in every aspect of the US federal government.
A great deal of the corn farming community near me knows and acknowledges that the corn subsidies are pointless and foolish but . . . they still take them.
We are continually getting these infomercials telling us how great ethanol is & I can’t find out who’s putting them on. Might be quite a few low-info voters that actually believe that crap & can’t imagine that media would lie to them.
Shazaam! Who would have guessed?
For years I heard complaint after complaint right here on FR about farmers ‘being paid not to plant’.
I predicted many, many times that once those ‘being paid not to plant’ payments ended, people would REALLY be unhappy.
It’s been a lot of years now that farmers are going wall to wall on production, and boy, is my prediction holding up.
Whodda thunk it!
The avg idiot in this country couldn’t even calculate their mpg, thus showing how much worse gas, diluted/polluted with ethanol, is.
Idiocracy was visionary.
I never did think it was a good idea to put food down the gas tank!
Many boat engines, chain saws, and such are often not happy with corn ethanol.
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