Decision over flex-fuel engines in 8-10 days, says Nitin Gadkari

The government is considering making these engines mandatory for the auto industry, so it will make a flex-fuel engine decision within the next 8-10 days, union secretary Nitin Gadkari said on Sunday that this measure will help farmers. He insisted on supporting the Indians. Economics
Virtually addressed at Rotary District Conference 2020-21 Gadkari said ethanol because the price of alternative fuel ethanol is 60-62 rupees per liter and gasoline is over 100 rupees per liter in many parts of the United States. Said that using can save Indians. Rs 30-35 per liter.
“I am the Secretary of Transport. Only gasoline engines do not exist and issue a command to the industry that there is a flex fuel engine. There is an option that people can use 100%. 100 per crude oil or ethanol
Road Traffic and Highway Secretary says that in Brazil, Canada and the United States, automakers are producing flex-fuel engines that offer alternatives that can use 100% gasoline or 100% bioethanol. Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the target date for achieving a mixture of 20% ethanol and gasoline has been moved up to 5 years to 2025 in order to reduce pollution and reduce dependence on imports. The government set a target last year of reaching a 10% ethanol blend in gasoline by 2022 and a 20% doping by 2030. As of
, about 8.5% ethanol is mixed with gasoline for 1-1.5% in 2014. The addition of ethanol procurement said it increased from 38 chlorreliters to 320 chlorreliters. Gatkari said ethanol is a superior fuel to gasoline, an imported substitute and cost-effective, pollution-free and native.
“Because we are a corn surplus, a sugar surplus, and a wheat surplus country (by mandating flex-fuel engines), that’s what boosts the Indian economy. It’s not the place to store all these edible grains,” he said. Noting that overfood is causing problems, he said, “The government uses food grains and sugar cane because the minimum support price (MSP) for our crops is higher than the international and domestic market prices. I made the decision that I could make ethanol. ” juice”

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