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Originally Posted by rmay635703
The environmental and energy cost of having that 15% mixed in is horrendous compared to having a simple heater or aux fuel tank for starting purposes.
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Drying the ethanol to take away most of that 4% water content is kinda energy-intensive, but what makes me oppose to E85 is the gasoline blend. A few months ago there were some proposals to replace the local E96h with E85 in order to allow Petrobras to import a lower-quality gasoline to be used in the blend, but the ethanol producers opposed to that mostly because of the higher costs to remove that small water content. Ethanol is already facing a harsh competition because the gasoline prices have been politically used in a failed attempt to control the inflation.