{"id":303889,"date":"2019-12-03T10:30:22","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=303889"},"modified":"2019-12-03T10:53:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T05:23:27","slug":"as-india-seeks-energy-independence-booze-may-be-a-hurdle-in-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/as-india-seeks-energy-independence-booze-may-be-a-hurdle-in-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"As India seeks energy independence, booze may be a hurdle in the way"},"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 &#8212; 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 state in northern India, 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<p>Asia\u2019s third-biggest economy would like to boost the amount of ethanol in gasoline to 20% in a decade from 6% now to cut its dependence on foreign oil, which is currently more than 80%. India vies with Brazil as the world\u2019s top sugar producer, and has seen how its rival has run a program for decades to use huge amounts of ethanol in fuel, replacing oil and supporting sugar prices.<\/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 &#8212; but a mandate to supply molasses to the liquor industry in the top producing state is threatening to derail those plans. In Uttar Pradesh state in northern India, 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. Asia\u2019s third-biggest economy would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303889","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}