Where to buy E85 in Melbourne?

[Randall679]

Using ethanol as an alternative for fossil petrolium is not about octane, tuning, revs or whatever ...

It is about using a fuel that grows on trees and eats carbon emissions in the process! Ethanol is primarily made out of sugar cane, which we have in abundance ... and could have more. And our farmers make the $$$, not countries in the Persian Gulf.

It takes only 200 days from planting to harvest ... for sugar cane as well as canola for biodiesel ... as opposed to around 300 million years for fossil fuels from trees that grew back then.

And it's a lot easier and cheaper to harvest cane and distill ethnol than it is to drill for oil and refine petrol. You can also make it out of almost any carbohydrate waste ... even algae used to filter coal fired power plants.

Brazil has been doing this for something like 30 years and have virtually no dependence on imported oil. They've certainly got the bugs out of running cars on alcohol. We've even been manufacturing an Ethanol Ford Focus for export for ages ... and we can't buy one here!

I think they only put 15% petrol in the E85 mix so we won't suck it out and drink it! Metholated spirits has something added for the same reason. In the US, you can even get a license for your own ethanol still that looks like a bowser!

I ultimately think Australia can stop importing oil if we embrace ethanol and biodiesel right across the board.