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by creamynebula 1799 days ago
Pretty much all cars here run on gasoline.
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Yes, but it is in fact a mixture of gasoline and ethanol. To quote the Wikipedia article:

Blends of E10 or less are used in more than 20 countries around the world, led by the United States, where ethanol represented 10% of the U.S. gasoline fuel supply in 2011.[1] Blends from E20 to E25 have been used in Brazil since the late 1970s. E85 is commonly used in the U.S. and Europe for flexible-fuel vehicles. Hydrous ethanol or E100 is used in Brazilian neat ethanol vehicles and flex-fuel light vehicles and hydrous E15 called hE15 for modern petrol cars in the Netherlands.[2]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_ethanol_fuel_mixtures