Launch of sugarcane-based gasohol auto fuel okayed
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20/05/2001
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Business Standard (New Delhi)
After dithering for years, the government has finally decided to introduce gasohol as an alternative clean automobile fuel in a big way. A high-level delegation headed by petroleum minister Ram Nail will visit Brazil from May 24 to study the production and marketing of gasohol. Gasohol is a blend of ethanol and petrol. Ethanol is extracted from molasses, and the use of gasohol is expected to come as a boon to the sugarcane farmers and a value-addition to the molasses industry, besides helping the finance ministry check the mounting oil import bill. Vehicles using conventional petrol emanate toxic gas like carbon monoxide as auto emissions because of unbent hydrocarbons.