New Delhi: Petroleum Minister Hardep Singh Puri on Friday showed the concern that ethanol-mixed gasoline is harmed, saying that the E20 fuel, which contains 80% gasoline and 20% ethanol, reduces the performance with a marginal 1-3% and causes no engine errors. In the midst of public exclamation over loss of miles, Puri ethanol mixing calls a ‘very successful story’ that reduces oil imports and benefits farmers. According to him, India rolled out a few years before the schedule E20 and will gradually increase the mixture further. “Biofuels are 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 drive the same engine there,” Puri said here. “But I’ve never heard of engine interruptions (after using E20 fuel),” he added. “We are in a lucky situation that I have done a few years in advance, five or six years in advance. As we continue, I am very sure, and we have a comfortable level with the ecosystem, the feed and everything. We will gradually increase it,” Puri said. Referring to Brazil’s use of 27% ethanol mixing, Puri said that India’s biofuels use will also gradually increase as the country’s energy demand increases. He said the government has pilot projects to use seaweed in abundance on Indian coasts to make sustainable aviation fuel. Seaweed is not the only source of biofuels that has become a success, the minister said bamboo was a different source. India also started making sustainable aviation fuel from used cooking oil, Puri said. The use of sustainable aviation fuel will help the Aviation sector of India to compensate the rules for carbon offset by the international civil aviation organization that will be enforced from 2027. Ethanol is traditionally made with sugarcane or molasses, or maize. Puri said India has increased the use of maize to make ethanol from zero to 40% in the last few years.
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