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Gasolinegate

Burl Haigwood

Do you know what's in your gasoline?

Our addiction to gasoline threatens our lives as we breathe toxic carcinogens in our fuel. For over 100 years, the oil industry duped the public and collaborated with the federal government to protect its gasoline market. As a result, consumers waste billions of dollars, public health is compromised, and the nation remains captive to foreign oil.


Authors Burl Haigwood and Doug Durante tell this story based on over 30 years of working to champion clean fuels to reduce our dependence on oil. With first-hand accounts from Congressional leaders, entrepreneurs, and clean energy supporters, they take you inside the process of government, legislation and regulations, and how it failed the public.

Gasolinegate is a must-read for anyone who cares about the environment and health care, the price of gasoline, the future of biotechnology, and how many pounds of toxic emissions we ingest daily. It's more than you eat, drink, or think.


Gasolinegate will help you understand how and why the public got duped into believing gasoline was safe and there were no alternatives.

Book Details

  • Publisher: New Degree Press
  • Publish Date: May 11st, 2023
  • Pages: 400
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.82in - 1.02lb
  • EAN: 9798889266921
  • Categories: GeneralGeneralGeneral

Praise for this book

"Gasolinegate is the first comprehensive book to chronicle decades of inaction by the petroleum industry to clean up its gasoline and the failure of Congress and EPA to make them do so, resulting in lives lost, dollars wasted, and a weakened nation." - The Honorable E. Benjamin Nelson, Former United States Senator and Governor of Nebraska, Chair, Governors' Biofuels Coalition Author, Death of the Senate.


"Gasolinegate is an information milestone of how big oil set out to brutally control the energy market which buttresses recent 2023 revelations of how they subverted response to global climate change science. Political strong-arming and deceit adds true color to this intriguing story, made public" - Scott Sklar, Professor, The George Washington University (GWU) and co-author The Forbidden Fuel: Power Alcohol in the 20th Century.


If Woodward and Bernstein revealed the machinations behind the Watergate break-in, Burl Haigwood and Doug Durante have taken away our rose-colored glasses in regard to the adverse real-world economic, environmental and political consequences of reliance on polluting petro fuels. - Edwin Rothschild, Former Public Affairs and Energy Director, Citizen Action.


Authors Burl Haigwood and Doug Durante bring us the riveting, untold story of how the proper development of alternatives to gasoline has been blocked by purposedly built misconception, prejudice, and blunt lack of information, costing the American public billions of dollars, causing significant damage to US public health, economy and energy security - Plinio Nastari, President, DATAGRO Group & IBIO Brazilian Institute of Bioenergy & Bioeconomy.