Govt pushes biofuels again, despite bitter experience

The nearly decade-old programme to promote ethanol-blended petrol has failed to make much headway despite continued attempts by the government to get it going. The latest such attempt was last week, when the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs ( CCEA) made the very poor decision to force oil marketing companies to mix five per cent ethanol with petrol throughout the country from next month. Past experience should have warned the CCEA off.

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