Re: Some cars can't run on ethanol-petrol mix.



On 9 Apr, 07:10, "Dogpoop" <dogp...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Doug typed:

How unfortunate

I thought you didn't want people using ethanol in fuels?

Certainly not ethanol from food crops or ethanol that uses as much
energy/pollution to produce as it yields.

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