Agreed, ethanol is not good news
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Originally Posted by Jake
By the time this legislation comes in most of us with bikes over 15 years old will be suffering the full effects of Ethanol in fuel in any case, on other forums there are already reports of plastic tanks going soft and becoming porus, severe corrosion in carbs, fuel pipes disintegrating and no doubt other issues with this fuel so maybe two years or so we wont even make it down to the city as we will only have a melted pile of classic plastic in the garage.
Jake.
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There has been a bit of discussion in the HUBB about ethanol in fuel, such as in Brazil, IIRC, where it is in very high concentrations (again IIRC).
Here in the UK it is generally thought to be about 5% at present but the EU rules permit up to 10% to be added.
All of the pumps in France have a sign, E10, to show that the normal stuff is at that concentration ("super" fuels are ethanol free apparently).
Here, signing is not part of the law so the fuel retailers can add as much as they like up to the 10% limit without informing us.
I did a check on the French products about 3 years ago (with the usual technique of brimming the tank) and the E10 fuel was consistently returning less miles per gallon/litre compared with the premium fuel.
There are no good features about using ethanol in fuel; even some "greens" have realised that the land used for producing ethanol crops could be better utilised to produce food.
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Dave
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