{"id":303958,"date":"2019-12-03T11:55:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T06:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=303958"},"modified":"2019-12-03T12:06:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T06:36:09","slug":"liquor-may-be-hurdle-to-indias-energy-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/liquor-may-be-hurdle-to-indias-energy-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquor may be hurdle to India\u2019s energy independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : India, the world\u2019s fastest growing guzzler of oil, is seeking to reduce its addiction to imports by using more sugarcane 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : India, the world\u2019s fastest growing guzzler of oil, is seeking to reduce its addiction to imports by using more sugarcane 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.<\/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":[139,130,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303958","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=303958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}