Bulldog wrote:strange how this carbon tax is so good to everyone yet the polls state otherwise towards Julia. Putting her below Rudd before he was out on his backside.
ANyway seen as i bought a new Series 2 commodore and that engine is capable of taking the BioFlex fuel (75%-85% ethanol in it) i filled up yesterday at caltex for $1.21 a litre
So i knew there was a good reason to buy the new commodore. I was probably the first person to use that bowser as when i went to fill up my tank the nosel was full of spider webs. everyone was looking at me thinking i was putting the wrong fuel in. They all paid $1.47 a litre.
The carbon taxes posed in the past by the ALP didn't actually reduce emissions, just trade them, so they were not much good for anybody.
This one so far doesn't offer more - the Greens have better policy in that area.
Burning ethanol is better than petrol to some extent because ethanol is a smaller molecule with less carbon atoms in it.
However, I think you need more ethanol to generate the same power and cover the same distance so it may work out much the same.
I'm not sure how LPG compares with an ethanol/petrol mix for carbon content, but I'd expect LPG to be better.
However, we may run out of LPG, but we can divert food crop lands to growing vegetation to make ethanol from.
Hydrogen is the only carbon free fuel, and petrol cars can be converted to run on it - and Germany is already moving in that direction.