Good old broke NSW

This amazing piece of politicial ineptness is limited to NSW thank heavens but I do feel sorry for those inflicted with one of the more strange political decision in Australian history. THere are so many tests of the inefficiency of E10 in regard to the decent increase in fuel consumption that more than offsets the lower cost of the fuel that you would have to say that the fishy smell in NSW politics extends to both sides of the fence with this one

Regards

RobA

E10 won't hurt it, other countries have been using it for years.

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The few cents difference will be the least of your money worries if the EU and Iran can't come to some sort of compromise Axle.

O'farrell obviously hasn't thought the issue through. He'll have to subsidise petrol retailers along NSW borders because as sure as eggs people who can will buy regular unleaded interstate.

Axle, On my V8 Landcruiser I get a 7-10% increase in fuel usage with E10 compared with unleaded. But unleaded is only 2% cheaper.
I wonder if anyone has done the numbers on premium unleaded.

Rob! I see the logic, oil is a finite resource, Trying to stretch it out and save importing more oil has merits. Its not the extra few cent that it costs to buy Premium if you intend to go that way, that is going to hurt, its the $1.50 a litre already is the impost. There is some talk about coal to liquid and shale oil that is viable now, it would be nice to see someone get into that to keep the oil companies on their toes. If you have been to the USA recently. they are still using petrol at a great rate, with huge utes and petrol guzzlers! It cant last forever and we have past the halfway point of oil usage with no big significant oil finds since the 80's.. I don't think these are alarmist views!! Michael

Axle,

I agree with Ozhumvee's comments. My wife has a 2010 Getz 1.6 she has had from new. Not knowing any better when we bought it we used E10 for the first couple of fills, and we thought we had bought a under powered car (it wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding). We got a voucher that allowed us to buy 95 octane fuel for the same price as the E10. We noticed the difference straightaway, the car had so much more power which gave us many more miles to the gallon.

You are so right when you say that fuel is not the sole running cost, you will greatly reduce the life of your engine by using E10 in your V8.

They had a segment on Today Tonight last year in which they had trials by motoring experts. It showed that the E10 would have to be 5 to 6 cents cheaper for there to be any advantage on a mileage basis not taking into account the other negatives.
I know this reply has been long winded but the message is: Do your self a big favour and stay away from E10.

Happy travels
Steve