Ethanol: Say no to sugar lobby

The government's programme to blend ethanol with petrol under its overall plan to promote the use of environment-friendly biofuels has failed to make much headway despite repeated bids to get it going. It's not just the coveted target of 10 per cent ethanol doping that seems totally out of reach; even the initial goal of five per cent admixing seems hard to attain in view of the difficulties faced by oil marketing companies (OMCs) in securing enough ethanol for this purpose.

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