What fuel do you use?

[billfisher]

I use 91 ULP but ethanol free, I don't think there is any advantage with high octane. E10 is fine for the car. If I am worried about octane drop with old fuel I will dilute it with fresh 91 ULP or sometimes use an octane booster additive.

[Blusta]

Use ULP95 usually in an Optimax. No isues so far. Would never consider using Ethanol in my boat. Used ethanol in my Jackaroo for a while then started having idle/ stalling issues until I refilled with 98 octane for a while and have never had probs since. Took months for the sweet sugary smell to go as I refilled each time.

[White Pointer]

G'day,

I've got two 4-strokes - a Mercury 3.5HP and a Suzuki 175HP. Both are run on 98 octane BP (Ultimate) or Caltex (Vortex). I'm not looking for any power advantage. Its just that they are both ethanol free and very clean fuels.

Regards,

White Pointer

[Crocodile]

The whole thing with ethanol in petrol is to buy votes in the cane towns to prop up an ailing sugar industry.
You and I subsidise cane farmers by ruining our motors.
It has nothing to do with reducing GH gases, by the time you burn the diesel to drive the tractors etc it probably creates more GH gases.
The good news for us is that suger is at a high price this year so we will probably run short of ethanol petrol.
When the price of sugar falls we will hear all about ethanol again.

[Crocodile]

If you don't believe me have a look at this propaganda site.
http://www.industry.qld.gov.au/dsdwe...nt.cfm?id=7567

[White Pointer]

The whole thing with ethanol in petrol is to buy votes in the cane towns to prop up an ailing sugar industry.
You and I subsidise cane farmers by ruining our motors.
It has nothing to do with reducing GH gases, by the time you burn the diesel to drive the tractors etc it probably creates more GH gases.
The good news for us is that suger is at a high price this year so we will probably run short of ethanol petrol.
When the price of sugar falls we will hear all about ethanol again.

G'day,

I don't want to start WW3 over ethanol BUT:

Its calorific value is different to oil based petroleum and therefore you burn more to get the same power. So its not particularly energy efficient in the engines in our cars. It could be if manufacturers were allowed to build one engine to meet one fuel standard but we keep adding more sauce to achieve political agendas - not environmental ones.

Sugar is a lazy crop compared to market gardens for vegetables and fruits. The use of sugar to produce ethanol was original proposed as a waste recycling project. It is a tradegy, that the price oil companies were prepared to pay for crops that offered a high ethanol yield, was greater that the price for the same crops as food.

Sugar is planted on some of the most fertile coastal soil in this country that could produce much higher yields of essential foods. Sugar is a "third world" crop. It is a good starting point for giving starving countries something they can grow and sell at relatively low cost and earn an income that gets them off international welfare.

It is utterly insane that productive land is not used to potential to grow food to feed the starving millions in this world. It is equally insane that corn in the USA is diverted to ethanol production because the price yield is better than feeding an African country.

We are not being served by ethanol. We are being corrupted by it.

White Pointer

[ThePinkPanther]

Unleaded pouring down the throat of twin barrel Holly's in my 5.8 L OMC Cobra Inboard V8.

Yeh Baby, way to go!

Especially at 35 L/hr!!!