Jet fuel

Toby

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No not the rocket stuff - noticed the other day that Jet are now doing E5 higher octane stuff.

No idea how long they have, but not really surprised, and guess we'll see more places stocking it, as sales seem to have increased.

I know we've done the E10 fuel to death on here, but does anyone actually buy it ? and if so why ?
Performance down, and more importantly economy down by around 10% too. With E5 only costing around 8p per litre more - 5% increase, why wouldnt you buy E5 ?

The only folks benefitting from E10 are the farmers with contracts to supply corn for the ethanol. We're growing crops for fuel instead of food, it adds 7% to the price nd as mentioned, returns 10% less economy - doesnt seem good for the motorist.

I understand the enviroment arguement, but technically were using less petrol anyway as more folks move over to leccy cars, and this theroretically will keep on reducing as petrol cars decline.
 

andyglym

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No not the rocket stuff - noticed the other day that Jet are now doing E5 higher octane stuff.

No idea how long they have, but not really surprised, and guess we'll see more places stocking it, as sales seem to have increased.

I know we've done the E10 fuel to death on here, but does anyone actually buy it ? and if so why ?
Performance down, and more importantly economy down by around 10% too. With E5 only costing around 8p per litre more - 5% increase, why wouldnt you buy E5 ?

The only folks benefitting from E10 are the farmers with contracts to supply corn for the ethanol. We're growing crops for fuel instead of food, it adds 7% to the price nd as mentioned, returns 10% less economy - doesnt seem good for the motorist.

I understand the enviroment arguement, but technically were using less petrol anyway as more folks move over to leccy cars, and this theroretically will keep on reducing as petrol cars decline.
The C-in-C uses E10 in the 1.2 tsi Yeti, 99% are short runs so it kills the car so needs a good blast out to Penrith every now and again. MPG is awful around town too. Why? Good question :arghh:

Wouldn't touch E10 with a barge pole for my Zed and even less so for my motorbike.
 

Stevo7682

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I run the zeds mainly on momentum as limited supply of super around here nearest is 12 miles away
and the shell/ BP really dear.
Tesco is currently £1.669 for 99 momentum..
The skoda just gets diesel from jet down the road.

Stephen.
 

marke

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forgive me if someone said this:
I understand that e10 will attract moisture more than regular fuels - the problem is more in the service station tanks that eventually start corrode and create problems going into your car. That said some tanks will get coated with fibre glass products that will circumvent the problem. I don't use it but perhaps the problem is in the logistics rather than the product.
 
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