jackbadger56 wrote:
> On Feb 4, 9:55 pm, saab_o_naut <saabon...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Feb 4, 5:22 pm, jackbadger56 <castl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> It seems that if a manufacturer can make a car run on E85, they've
>>> earned an official 'green' tag. AFAIK cars running on this still
>>> produce greenhouse gases (is that right?), there are stuff-all places
>>> selling the ****, a tank seems to take you half the distance, and if
>>> everyone switched over to it there'd be no sugar/corn/potatoes/alpaca
>>> goats or whatever they're currently deriving it from left to eat, and
>>> the only way to make up the shortfall of farming land would involve
>>> clearing on a massive scale!
>>> Another bloody red herring!!
>> Ethanol fuel in Australia is limited to a maximum of 10 percent
>> because the federal government has set up cartel-marketting agreements
>> between the key oil companies and Manildra Corp which is the biggest
>> producer of ethanol in Australia. The 10 percent limit is set so
>> Manildra can always keep product flowing so the pricing of 10 percent
>> ethanol fuel can be kept artificially lower than regular ULP.
>
> Well there's another 'problem'; E10 is about 2-3c cheaper than UL.
> Shouldn't the real difference be closer to 10%?
Only if ethanol is free, which it isn't.
On the other hand, you fuel consumption goes up at LEAST 10%, as far as
my experience goes.
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