E5 and E10 Petrol is dangerous and not 'Green' at all - it increases the Climate Change 'problem' - it must be discontinued!

 

E5 & E10 Ethanol blended Petrol is not as 'Green' as is made out - here's the story -

E10 is set to be introduced in September this year - be warned

The facts are:

You need to burn more E5 & E10 to get the same performance as straight Petrol because the blended fuel is less volatile.

Water condensation combines with the sugar-derived Ethanol in E5 and E10 and forms a bacteria (thanks to the Sugar base of the Ethanol) which is acidic and damages fuel systems - requiring replacement parts to be made - hardly 'green'. E10 is far more damaging than E5 in this respect - neither are particularly good for your vehicle.

It is recommended to discard any E10 fuel over 30 days old in Lawnmowers and other garden equipment fuel systems to prevent damage - this wasted fuel and the disposal problem is hardly 'green.' E10 has a short storage life. 

In the UK this could lead to an eye watering 2 Million Gallons of fuel having to be disposed of a year - this is hardly green - most will end likely up on bonfires which is extremely dangerous!

Any CO2 absorption by growing Sugar Beet to make into Ethanol is likely lost in the less efficient fuel blend which generates more CO2 to get comparable vehicle performance, plus the added CO2 deficit of the transport required to cultivate, distil and move the Ethanol negates any further 'green' gains which are already lost from being a less efficient fuel product.

Cheap Sugar base products may be grown in third world nations by deforesting areas to meet the demand for the base Sugar to distil, hardly 'green.' Additionally, this process removes Sugar from the local food chain, potentially causing poverty and making third world local populations to the crop worse off through food poverty.

The acidic attack on fuel systems from Ethanol generated bacteric acid can destroy plastic fuel system parts and some fuel lines leading to vehicle fires - hardly 'green' to produce needless toxic smoke fires and avoidable danger to life? 

Plus scrapping cars which can't run on E5 or E10 and building others that can is also CO2 heavy and not very green.

So, here are a basic set of arguments that destroy any notions of E5 and E10 petrol being environmentally friendly - the sum of the parts is that these fuels are more destructive than they are beneficial and cause more problems than they solve.. 

Vehicles are many more times efficient and less polluting today than at any time in our recent history, moving to non-hazardous Synthetic Bio fuels are the answer, rather than going down the route of battery powered vehicles on which China has a majority control on the elements needed to build the batteries. (Bio fuels in this context do not include E5 and E10 fuels). 

Worse still is fuel wastage, if E10 becomes the only petrol from the pumps, as I said earlier in this article it is estimated that about 1million gallons per year used in garden machinery will end up being wasted and stale which will have to be disposed of, because the fuel loses its volatility if not used within a month. 

All of the above deficits can be avoided and will save more of the Planet than these blended fuels - how Green is that? E10 introduction is not as Green as it is made out to be.

As an aside, illegally introduced Wild Boar in the UK done as part of 're-wilding' now dislodge more CO2 from the ground through foraging than 1 million cars produces a year. Go figure. Which is a long way from doing anything about China's 25% of total emissions produced a year I grant you. Ours is less than 1%.