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first to make synthetic rubber from alcohol… But America in World War II didn’t have enough high-octane energy to satisfy both our aviation and our synthetic rubber needs, so the U.S. furtively made enormous amounts of synthetic rubber from alcohol. Then, when Eisenhower came in, the oil companies and the administration were careful not to let the public realize they were ever able to do it.
"Nature doesn’t have pollution. Pollution is valuable chemicals in the wrong place…
"I don’t get any gold medals from the oil companies, but I do know David Rockefeller was impressed by the book Medard Cabel’s ‘Energy, Earth & Everyone’. He knows that it’s so. I’ve been asked to speak at a luncheon given by the chairman of the board of Atlantic Richfield. They also know it’s so. They don’t say ‘I hate you’ or anything like that. They just don’t know how to let go of a hot poker. It’s not that they’re bad human beings, but some are hooked on a bad game…
“Settling the energy crisis on the basis of how to make money may accelerate the coming of something we might not like–”
