Is it time to increase the ethanol content in our petrol?

By Jamie Durrani2019-09-17T09:00:00

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Short-term gains, but no environmental solution

A UK parliamentary group has called for more bioethanol to be added to UK petrol supplies. They claim increasing the amount of ethanol in petrol to 10% to produce a fuel known as E10 would have the same effect as removing 700,000 cars from the roads, in terms of reducing carbon emissions. This article explores the impact of this proposed move.

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