As fuel approached the $1.50 per litre point, I began to investigate alternatives to current fuel supplies. There was a petrol station close to my house that had an E85 bowser. It was locked all the time with a padlock. When I asked the attendant if I could use the fuel, he advised me that a conversion kit had to be installed to so that the car could use E85. He explained that the fuel was E85: that it was 85% ethanol and only 15% petrol.