The government must give up on failed biofuel efforts

The government’s ambitious biofuel programme, marred by glitches since its launch in 2003, seems finally to be running aground. While the blending of diesel with biofuel derived from jatropha remained a non-starter right from the beginning, admixing petrol with ethanol – which took off after several hiccups – has failed to go beyond an admixture level of five per cent. Even this is getting harder to sustain. The 2009 National Policy on Biofuels enthusiastically imagined raising this proportion gradually to 20 per cent by 2017.

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