{"id":303726,"date":"2019-12-02T10:47:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T05:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=303726"},"modified":"2019-12-02T10:47:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T05:17:57","slug":"how-booze-may-not-let-india-cut-its-dependence-on-foreign-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/how-booze-may-not-let-india-cut-its-dependence-on-foreign-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"How booze may not let India cut its dependence on foreign oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India, the world\u2019s fastest growing guzzler of oil, is seeking to reduce its addiction to imports by using more sugar cane ethanol as fuel \u2014 but a mandate to supply molasses to the liquor industry in the top producing state is threatening to derail those plans.<\/p>\n<p>In Uttar Pradesh, there is a local government order requiring sugar mills to provide fixed amounts of molasses, a product of the refining process, to alcoholic drinks manufacturers at rates well below market levels, which means less is available to turn into ethanol for powering cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India, the world\u2019s fastest growing guzzler of oil, is seeking to reduce its addiction to imports by using more sugar cane ethanol as fuel \u2014 but a mandate to supply molasses to the liquor industry in the top producing state is threatening to derail those plans. In Uttar Pradesh, there is a local government order requiring sugar mills to provide fixed amounts of molasses, a product of the refining process, to alcoholic drinks manufacturers at rates well below market levels, which means less is available to turn into ethanol for powering cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,191,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}