Grab a chair, kick off your shoes, chill and chat.Nomoss wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2026 5:38 pmI use E85 Ethanol in both our cars, that has gone up from 79cents to 90cents in a local garage, which considering well over 90% of ethanol is home grown here in france, it is taking the piss a bit.
https://www.prix-carburants.gouv.fr/
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I understand the annoyance but the price of most fuels are linked internationally through world markets and since petrol - from non-French sources - goes up in price, so ethanol - irrespective of its production country - goes up in price, since it can replace petrol to smaller or larger quantities.widge wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2026 5:54 pmNomoss wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2026 5:38 pmI use E85 Ethanol in both our cars, that has gone up from 79cents to 90cents in a local garage, which considering well over 90% of ethanol is home grown here in france, it is taking the piss a bit.
https://www.prix-carburants.gouv.fr/
It is why, for example, fracking in the UK will not in itself reduce the price of gas - although there are some on the extreme right who might have you believe differently.
The fact that a fuel is produced at the bottom of your garden, does not mean that it must automatically be delivered to you at reduced cost, when the same producer can sell it into the international market at a higher price.
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Melenchon, former deputé and currently the driving force behind LFI (the political party La France Insoumise), the radical lefties - a Trotskyist if you like. He's a rabble-rouser and constantly in the French news when there are any large demos going on.