Germany recently began introducing gasoline containing a higher
percentage of biofuels. But consumers have so far been skittish,
leading to production chaos and shortages of traditional
gasoline. Some politicians have called for laws mandating that
biofuels be scrapped altogether. It began as a plan to reduce
the amount of CO2 being pumped into European skies. But a
European Union directive requiring gas stations to sell fuel
with 10 percent ethanol content has hit a snag in Germany, where
consumers are avoiding the new petrol -- known as E10 -- because
it is harmful to some cars. Suppliers have had to slow down
deliveries of the fuel, but extra quantities of E10 on hand have
left less room for and shortages of traditional fuel in a number
of stations given the extra demand.In today's news, it is
portrayed everywhere as another weird and unnecessary climate
protection measure; faznet calls it a result of the German
"Klimaallergie" ("climate allergy"); even the taz tries to find
out the culprit (chancellor Mer