New Delhi: Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday rejected concerns that gasoline with ethanol damages vehicles, with fuel E20, which includes 80% gasoline and 20% ethanol, reduces power by 1-3% and does not cause any engine failure.
In the middle of public outrage over the loss of mileage, he called Puri ethanol-mining with a “very successful story” that reduces oil imports and the benefits of farmers. India, said, introduced the E20 a few years before the plan and gradually increase the mixture.
“The biofuel is more than just ethanol, but ethanol is a very big story. Ethanol is a very successful story. And there is no problem with the engine. German, Japanese, everyone will tell you that they run the same engine there,” Puri said at the event here. “But I never heard of engine failure (after using E20 fuel),” he added.
“We are in a happy situation that we have done the E20 a few years in advance, five or six years in advance. As we proceed, I am very sure and we have a level of comfort with ecosystem, feed and all. We are gradually increasing it,” Puri said.
Puri, who quoted the Brazilian use of 27% of the blending of ethanol, said the Indian use of biofuels would also gradually increase as the demand for Earth’s energy increases.
He said that the government operates pilot projects that use seaweed found in abundance on the Indian coast to create a sustainable air fuel. Sea eyelashes are not the only source of biofuels that have become a success, the Minister said he added that Bambus was another such source.
India also began to produce sustainable air fuel from used cooking oil, Puri said. The use of sustainable air fuel would help the Indian aviation sector to follow the rules of carbon compensation set by the international civil aviation organization that will be recovered since 2027.
Ethanol is traditionally produced using sugar cane or molasses or corn. Puri said India has increased the use of corn to produce ethanol from zero to 40% in the last few years.
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