Washington DC, 1982 -- The authors of The Forbidden Fuel join then-Senator David Durenberger (R-MN), Senator Carl Curtis (R- IA) at the book launching party in a US Senate "Watergate" hearing room (325 Russell) in Washington DC. Left to right: authors William (Bill) Kovarik and Scott Sklar, Senators Durenberger and Curtis, and author Hal Bernton.
Hal Bernton is a reporter for the Seattle Times. He worked on a team that earned the Anchorage Daily News the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, and his journalism awards include the 2009 James V. Risser Prize for western environmental journalism. Contact: hbernton@seattletimes.com
William Kovarik teaches journalism at the University of Western Ontario, Radford University, and Virginia Tech, and is the author of Mass Media and Environmental Conflict. Contact: bill.kovarik@gmail.com
Scott Sklar is the author of Consumer Guide to Solar Energy and leads the Stella Group, Ltd., a strategic clean-energy marketing and policy firm in Washington, D.C. Contact: Solarsklar@aol.com
R. James Woolsey is the Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Boyd Griffin is president of the consulting company Boyd Griffin & Company. Contact: boydgriffin@gmail.com
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Author Interviews:
MoFilms’ award winning Feedom Fuels video has an interview with Bill Kovarik in the first minute or so. It was also reviewed by Ed Begley.
For Ethanol, the Future is Now. National Public Radio, Feb. 15, 2007. “By taxing industry alcohol with beverage alcohol, they basically put a bunch of distilleries out of business in 1860s and 1870s and opened the door for the Pennsylvania oil boom. So this was in a way a subsidy on petroleum.”
Green Auto Blog — If you – like me – are still learning lots about the ethanol scene, then Bill Kovarik has got some information for you (us).
Domestic Fuel – Here is a really interesting website with some very eye-opening history about fuel in this country. The website is authored by Bill Kovarik, Ph.D. who co-authored a book called Forbidden Fuel back about 25 years ago, which he is in the process of updating. I met him at the ACE meeting last month and finally got to call and interview him today. It’s a pretty long interview – and I cut it down by half! – but it only scratches the surface of the fascinating history that ethanol has had in this nation.
