Mark Z. Jacobson, the Stanford researcher whose work is referenced in the story above, wanted to make it extra-clear that his latest paper was not funded or influenced in any way by the funding Stanford has received from ExxonMobil.

Contacting Inside Greentech, Jacobson wrote the following:

"One needs only to look at the papers I have published to see that I serve the public good and science, not any interest group or company. For the present paper on ethanol, absolutely no funds were solicited or used from any company of any kind, including Exxon Mobil. The conclusions of the study, in fact, suggest that both gasoline and ethanol are deadly and should be eliminated in favor of cleaner vehicle technologies, such as battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles powered by renewable energy."

Jacobson took passionate exception to the FTCR's insinuation that universities' research could be tainted by the sources of the money they receive, comparing the FTCR's suggestion to disinformation campaigns by Joseph McCarthy and Joseph Goebbels in the 1940s and 1950s.

Dallas Kachan
Publisher / Acting Editor
Inside Greentech