{"id":646657,"date":"2025-09-17T11:52:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=646657"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:52:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T06:22:40","slug":"puri-hints-at-ethanol-pause-trashes-e20-engine-damage-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/puri-hints-at-ethanol-pause-trashes-e20-engine-damage-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Puri hints at ethanol pause, trashes E20 engine damage claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday hinted at reassessment of a proposal to raise ethanol blending percentage of petrol, even as he trashed claims of engine damage and lower mileage being caused by the E20 fuel with 20% ethanol blending being sold in the market at present.<\/p>\n<p>Pointing out that ethanol blending of petrol has risen from 1.4% in 2014 to 20% at present, Puri said he wants &#8220;to put a full stop there&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday hinted at reassessment of a proposal to raise ethanol blending percentage of petrol, even as he trashed claims of engine damage and lower mileage being caused by the E20 fuel with 20% ethanol blending being sold in the market at present. Pointing out that ethanol blending of petrol has risen from 1.4% in 2014 to 20% at present, Puri said he wants &#8220;to put a full stop there&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,219,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646657","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}