Truckers complain about poor quality biofuels

Breezin

There was a thread here — can't find it now — a while back with lots of people complaining about E10 fuel. I was a bit sceptical, thinking the petrol was all more or less coming from the same sources, unless one deliberately went for extreme low-cost stuff. Although my bike went considerably better on Spanish fuel earlier this year…

Then I saw this today:

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/08/05/hauliers-complain-that-poor-quality-biofuels-are-hitting-costs/

Yes, they're talking about diesel, but the same could well apply to petrol. They point out that no one in Ireland is responsible for enforcing standards in biofuel, that Irish fuels sampled failed the quality test, and that some samples included excess animal fat. Nothing very eco about burning Daisy in your tank!

The rubbish product is damaging engines and forcing them to buy more fuel than necessary because of its poor mpg.

With seemingly no one in charge, maybe just burning biofuel, petrol as well as diesel, isn't the issue. Maybe it's having crap biofuel for which there is no enforcement of standards.

dubal2008

Tesco have a fleet of trucks, some run on Bio Fuel, but these cannot pull the double decker trailers. Drivers going mad as they seem to be so much underpowered compared with the standard smokers

con747

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058363180/truckers-complain-about-poor-quality-biofuels

Is this the thread?

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058206144/incoming-e10-fuel-dreams-dashed

Calahonda52

A consequence of the GFA.

Laundering diesel is getting more difficult, much easier add shite to diesel as there is no testing

Breezin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122482952#Comment_122482952

Yep — looks like it.

Breezin

If it's one in four samples being below standard, as in the story, I'd say it's more fundamental than diesel being doctored.

But my point is that if there is no one testing the biofuel in diesel, then it's probably fair to assume the same for petrol. My (not old) bike was running crap for a while before it spent a few weeks in Spain recently. Spanish fuel, admittedly often 98 octane, has it spinning sweetly again.

Mad_Lad

HVO100 is night/day better than other bio fuels.

I think for motorbikes we'll see efuels or synthetic fuels, battery and hydrogen just won't cut it for motorcycles.

Who knows for cars could be efuels too.