Couple of things here. Honda is a proud supporter of the greenies who keep getting riding areas closed in Cali. 2nd, I believe in UFO's or atleast that there are life forms elsewhere, but do not believe Honda will be producing a CR250 until they can't sell any CRF250's any more. They would shoot themselves in the foot. In amateur racing, the bikes are cc for cc. I've stated before, Honda has no goal of producing two competing bikes. 3rd, Ethanol, while bad in almost every sense of common sense, will make more HP on a built bike or car. If you do not believe me, do some research. First, the BTU is much much worse, but the fact is, you consume like 30% more fuel, but only lose 20% of the power per BTU. Thus, the overall ability is higher. That may be hard to understand. But, the facts are: you can run a higher compression ratio, you can advance your timing, and you burn more to produce a higher HP rating. If you doubt this, go ask a turbo car guy what they use. Cost and HP make ethanol a great poor mans race fuel. But again, I think ethanol is stupid. Biobutanol from lawn grass would be worlds better. But won't happen. Greed rules my friends....