In Malawi, the national government is now supporting two pilot biofuels projects to reduce the drain on foreign exchange from fossil fuel purchases. In addition to a flex-fuel program involving the Mitsubishi-Pajero, the govenrment is now supporting a project that will manually convert cars to ethanol or gasoline. The flexfuel project resulted in a loss of 28 percent in fuel economy but overall reduction in cost due to the lower cost of ethanol. Project cost of $1 million is underwritten by the national government.