Mr. James Cogan:

It is a question of replacing a small volume of the petrol that we put into our tanks today with ethanol as opposed to using fossil petrol. The ethanol does not cost much more than petrol. It costs a couple of cent more per litre when one buys it wholesale but the base petrol that one uses underneath it becomes slightly cheaper when one puts ethanol in because ethanol is an oxygenator. Ethanol is a cleaner and one can use a slightly less refined base petrol underneath it and fewer additives and forms of other oxygenators and purifiers. When buyers of petrol on a considerable scale, such as Maxol and Applegreen, order their petrol, it is cheaper because they are adding in more ethanol. It costs less.