EVAPORATING INDIA’S ETHANOL PLAN
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As India Climate, warriors start thinking of ways & means to cut down carbon emissions in line with their commitments, one method of reducing emissions is already proving to be a non-starter. The great that Ethanol blended fuel would reduce emissions while simultaneously cutting down India’s oil bill is turning out to be misplaced.

In first week of December, 2009 food & agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, petroleum minister Murli Deora & new & renewable energy minister Farooq Abdulla met to resolve. The issues of the original plan, which envisaged blending 5% ethanol with every liter of petrol, by 2011. The conclusion they reached, ethanol blending was an impractical plan.