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So, I wrote an email to Hugo Griffiths, author of the Auto Express story (and
copied a couple of the editors at the same publication), and in my usual charming bedside manner, I told him that his story was nonsense. Of course, after I
sent the email I was immediately remorseful...not because of my harsh condemnation, but because I should have used the word "rubbish" instead of "nonsense" - rubbish seems to be a better British way to say nonsense according to
all the wonderful British TV shows that I binge-watch.
In any event, I received back a short but very nice and polite email from Hugo.
He wrote,
"Hi Marc - Thanks for getting in touch.
"I appreciate your points, and this is clearly an issue on which opinions are divided.
"It's not just the RAC Foundation that considers a large number of
cars are incompatible with E10, though. The UK Government estimates there are around million cars on the road 'for which the manufacturer has not approved the vehicle for use with E10'."
Hugo then included a website link to a recent report issued by the UK Department for Transport. That report can be found by CLICKING HERE.
I read the report.
The report doesn't actually state that ethanol is damaging, or how it can cause
damage, or which vehicles it is incompatible with. It only makes reference
to concerns that have been voiced about ethanol. In other words, the report
merely alludes to an ethanol-boogeyman in the same way that adults use an
