Using E10 can have an unwanted effect on fuel systems and injectors. I had my 1st major problem with the Venga 1.4 petrol after filling up with E10 twice in europe.

So (as an aside) if you are going to europe, check if your car can use it..

Ethanol it's not the engine that gets damaged. Its the fuel system plastics and rubber seals. My Vitara and Swift are fine with E10 but no more than that.

That said I believe the land and crops used for fuel could mean less food production. Which isn't going to do much for world hunger is it. So which bunch of virtue signallers should we tolerate?

It's interesting that Brazil has been fuelling light road vehicles with ethanol mix for 40 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_in_Brazil

I don't use any petrol containing ethanol as our regular daily drivers are diesel so everything else - motorcycles, mowers. chainsaws etc are not used regularly enough to avoid the water absorption problem with the E10 fuel so I stick with regular SP 95.

Edited by focussed on 18/07/2019 at 11:26

It's interesting that Brazil has been fuelling light road vehicles with ethanol mix for 40 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_in_Brazil

I don't use any petrol containing ethanol as our regular daily drivers are diesel so everything else - motorcycles, mowers. chainsaws etc are not used regularly enough to avoid the water absorption problem with the E10 fuel so I stick with regular SP 95.

One of the world's worst environmental disasters - the Brazilian chop down thousands of square miles of virgin rain forest to grow cash crops to make ethanol to burn in cars - it's a major cause of man-made CO2 pollution globally.

Err no actually - it's not a major cause of CO2 pollution, it's a carbon neutral operation.

A report commissioned by the United Nations, based on a detailed review of published research up to mid-2009 as well as the input of independent experts worldwide, found that ethanol from sugar cane as produced in Brazil "in some circumstances does better than just "zero emission." If grown and processed correctly, it has negative emission, pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere, rather than adding it."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_in_Brazil#Environmental_effects

Edited by focussed on 19/07/2019 at 00:34