Aldi and Austria Team Up to Improve The Climate - You Can Stop Saving Up For Your e-Car Now!

[Junkman]

It's all over the German media landscape - Aldi and OMV, the national Austrian oil fascists, are teaming up to sell petrol.

Applications have been filed to build for now ten petrol stations on Aldi car parks in Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart.

Planned is the sale of Petrol, E10, E85 and the leathal shit not really powering cars, at prices of at least 10 cents per litre below

the average.

 

OMV will handle the distribution of the fuels and the operation of the stations, like they already did for Aldi's Austrian subsidiary,

called Hofer, since late 2009.

 

Considering the usual delay with which such things are rolled out in Europe, i.e. Germany usually being 10 years behind Austria,

we thus can expect Aldi UK commencing to sell petrol in - uh - 2040.

 

This means, we can continue to drive our piston clanking shoddy chod until well after the UN Agenda 21 mandated sell by date

of ICE tat has expired.

 

Hehe, fuck you, Musk. Sod off to the Moon!

 

Oh, wait...

 

[SiC]

Cue the arguments that as it's 10c cheaper, it must not be good for your engine as it's cheap...

[Guest Hooli]

E85 is 15% ethanol isn't it? When I've used high ethanol fuel abroad in my bike it's run that much worse the savings were cancelled out by lower MPG.

[andy18s]

E85 is 15% ethanol isn't it? When I've used high ethanol fuel abroad in my bike it's run that much worse the savings were cancelled out by lower MPG.

Need to watch that stuff around bikes

I've seen Ducatis and Triumphs having their plastic tanks deforming in the past...

[Junkman]

E85 is 51%-83% ethanol and I can't wait to put it in the tank of my big bloody V8.

[Guest Hooli]

Need to watch that stuff around bikes

I've seen Ducatis and Triumphs having their plastic tanks deforming in the past...

 

I've got a proper Triumph with a metal tank & a suzuki with a metal tank, so no worries there.

[Rave]

I've just got back from the states where our hire car (a Dodge Grand Caravan) was 'flex-fuel'. I think in the whole 1800 miles of driving over several states I saw one place selling E85, for $1.50 a gallon. Regular gas was about $2.10 if you shopped around a bit.

 

I figured I would probably get about 25% fewer miles to the gallon from the E85 so didn't bother to fill up with it. The car ran amazingly well on regular '87' fuel (which I believe would be the equivalent of 91 octane in UK terms), but that's a story for the MPG thread.

 

I would very much like to get a turbo car and tune it up for E85; you can run a lot more boost all else being equal because E85 has an octane rating of over 100, and it cools the charge more as well. Probably easier to do it with LPG in the UK, though.

[Eddie Honda]

I've got a proper Triumph with a metal tank & a suzuki with a metal tank, so no worries there.

hahahaahahahahahhahahah

[PhilA]

Mother in law's car is "flex fuel", book states a higher power output from E85, with reduced torque; somehow better fuel economy also with better emissions.

 

Never had the chance to try it because they only sell regular dishwater (E10 87) around here.

 

Phil

[Slartibartfast]

The Mighty Car Mods chaps are always banging on about E85, which I gather is rather more popular over in upsidedownland than it is here. They use Haltech ECUs and then tune them for E85 which gives higher performance. Apparently.

[PhilA]

Or you can do what Brazil does and run E100 distilled from home-grown sugar beet.

[martc]

Or you can do what Brazil does and run E100 distilled from home-grown sugar beet cane.

 

For some reason I have my pedantic head on today.

[PhilA]

Thought they did beet. We grow cane around here in vast quantities, but it gets processed into cooking sugars.

 

Phil

[martc]

Thought they did beet. We grow cane around here in vast quantities, but it gets processed into cooking sugars.

 

Phil

 

And, by contrast, we grow beet around here in vast quantities, which gets processed into sugar. But the Brazilians definitely make their fuel from cane.