While EBP may be a great idea, it needed 3-4 years of preparation. Now, with the festive season upon us, we have surging prices and a sugar shortage. To top it off, we’re bleeding foreign exchange.
With Oppn stepping up attack on Modi govt over use of ethanol-blended petrol, Rewa MP remarks that while PM wants to make India self-reliant, 'anti-national elements' are creating obstacles.
The US, Brazil, Thailand, Canada, and France rolled out ethanol blending policies and timelines, driven by objectives such as cleaner air and support for agriculture.
In Lok Sabha reply, Centre says ethanol blending is aimed at reducing India's dependence on imported crude than reducing fuel prices, rules out return to E0 or E10 fuel.
Your manuals warn against using E20 in pre-2023 vehicles, so please clarify your position for these owners, says former Delhi chief minister as he takes battle to auto majors
E85 fuel was launched across 48 outlets last week. Experts warn of challenges, from low availability of flex-fuel vehicles & fuel outlets, to fuel economics & feedstock sustainability.
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A senior auto industry executive told me the ideal scenario for India would be a 'baseline' of E20 petrol, with consumers free to choose higher or lower blends.
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IAF chief Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh has ruled out a separate drone force, saying that UAVs must operate with fighters and other existing technology.
Modern India might have been conjured up in the image of Gandhi. But India was never a Gandhian state. Founders of the Republic, be it Nehru or Patel, nursed zero such notions.
BJP thinks it’s invincible and its vote bank will keep voting for it. These are small issues, they are not concerned about. Muslims will be made scapegoats as elections come near and BJP core voter will forget every other issue.
Too much democracy. We look at China’s economic transformation and draw absolutely the wrong conclusions. China’s successes are despite, not because, it is autocratic, decisions can be imposed from above. We owe to ourselves, at least partly because the two countries have been locked in mortal combat, at least since 1962, to analyse why, for example, its manufacturing sector is now ten times larger than India’s. Translated into much larger volumes of foreign trade as well.
Too long in power!!
Run out of ideas.
He has established the various manipulative ideas which will reverberate for decades: Saffronising all institutions including SCI, military, Election Commission. Eliminated a lot of non-Hindus (muslims mainly) with SIR. Systematic massaging of economic indicators, and now corruption- from Ram Mandir to everywhere.
Time for a change. I did vote for him twice. Not anymore.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Does petrol blended with ethanol reduce mileage. Does it damage the engine. This is a scientific question to which there can only be one truthful answer. Before expanding the blending programme to such an immense scale, the best science on the subject should have been evaluated within the government. Willing to bet a tankful of pure petrol it wasn’t. Institutional decision making. A collegial, Cabinet style of governance, different ministers placing contrasting, conflicting views, then these being harmonised keeping a larger national interest and perspective in mind. 2. Missing altogether in this equation is the customer, citizen, voter. So confident of her support, an informed national debate preceding major decisions is not considered necessary.
If the technical people and vehicle manufacturers explain the confusion to public about misconception about ethanol blending by continuous information bombardment to drown the opposition clamor on social media, then their anger will subside. currently, such rebuttal by qualified folks is not high enough. Ethanol blending is a good step for environment protection and the farmers and use of excess grains and sugar canes. Currently, 98% petrol cars are running on CNG. Bikes and scooters are running on petrol. But this segment is switching fast on e scooters. So it is info management is the solution rather than backtracking on E-20 as the new cars are compliant for this.
I never thought I’d miss the days of coalition politics where all options were bad but one still had the option of being able to unseat the government during elections.
What we have now is an extractive government, an inept opposition, well fed and well subsidized vote bank, and a middle class that’s left holding the bag.
As someone who has grown up in a BJP leaning family with multiple family members in the RSS, now I am itching to vote for Rahul Gandhi, only if he were to say something sensible.
BJP thinks it’s invincible and its vote bank will keep voting for it. These are small issues, they are not concerned about. Muslims will be made scapegoats as elections come near and BJP core voter will forget every other issue.
Shekhar Gupta’s journalism represents the same middle class and corporate interests.
Too much democracy. We look at China’s economic transformation and draw absolutely the wrong conclusions. China’s successes are despite, not because, it is autocratic, decisions can be imposed from above. We owe to ourselves, at least partly because the two countries have been locked in mortal combat, at least since 1962, to analyse why, for example, its manufacturing sector is now ten times larger than India’s. Translated into much larger volumes of foreign trade as well.
Too long in power!!
Run out of ideas.
He has established the various manipulative ideas which will reverberate for decades: Saffronising all institutions including SCI, military, Election Commission. Eliminated a lot of non-Hindus (muslims mainly) with SIR. Systematic massaging of economic indicators, and now corruption- from Ram Mandir to everywhere.
Time for a change. I did vote for him twice. Not anymore.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Does petrol blended with ethanol reduce mileage. Does it damage the engine. This is a scientific question to which there can only be one truthful answer. Before expanding the blending programme to such an immense scale, the best science on the subject should have been evaluated within the government. Willing to bet a tankful of pure petrol it wasn’t. Institutional decision making. A collegial, Cabinet style of governance, different ministers placing contrasting, conflicting views, then these being harmonised keeping a larger national interest and perspective in mind. 2. Missing altogether in this equation is the customer, citizen, voter. So confident of her support, an informed national debate preceding major decisions is not considered necessary.
To start the weekend on a facetious note, what is the mood amongst those who are NOT core voters.
There is nothing to worry. During elections just utter “Abdul” and the committed voter will fall in line.
Did ram mandir helped them pappu bhakt 🤣
If the technical people and vehicle manufacturers explain the confusion to public about misconception about ethanol blending by continuous information bombardment to drown the opposition clamor on social media, then their anger will subside. currently, such rebuttal by qualified folks is not high enough. Ethanol blending is a good step for environment protection and the farmers and use of excess grains and sugar canes. Currently, 98% petrol cars are running on CNG. Bikes and scooters are running on petrol. But this segment is switching fast on e scooters. So it is info management is the solution rather than backtracking on E-20 as the new cars are compliant for this.
I never thought I’d miss the days of coalition politics where all options were bad but one still had the option of being able to unseat the government during elections.
What we have now is an extractive government, an inept opposition, well fed and well subsidized vote bank, and a middle class that’s left holding the bag.
As someone who has grown up in a BJP leaning family with multiple family members in the RSS, now I am itching to vote for Rahul Gandhi, only if he were to say something sensible.