{"id":73816,"date":"2020-12-20T10:35:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T05:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=73816"},"modified":"2020-12-24T16:57:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T11:27:13","slug":"transport-ministry-invites-comments-for-introducing-adoption-of-e20-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/transport-ministry-invites-comments-for-introducing-adoption-of-e20-fuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Transport Ministry invites comments for introducing adoption of E20 fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleseDetailm.aspx?PRID=1681730\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>\u00a0Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has published a notification seeking comments from the public for adoption of E20 fuel to promote green fuel like ethanol.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>E20 Fuel:<\/strong>\u00a0It means blending 20% of ethanol with gasoline as an automotive fuel.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance:\u00a0<\/strong>The blending will help in reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, hydrocarbons and will also help in reducing the oil import bill, thereby saving foreign exchange and boosting energy security.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ethanol:\u00a0<\/strong>Ethanol having chemical formula of C2H5OH can be produced from crops like sugarcane, maize, wheat which have high starch content. In India, ethanol is mainly produced from sugarcane molasses by the fermentation process,Hence, since ethanol is produced from plants that harness the power of the sun, ethanol is also considered as green fuel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Click here News:\u00a0Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has published a notification seeking comments from the public for adoption of E20 fuel to promote green fuel like ethanol. Facts: E20 Fuel:\u00a0It means blending 20% of ethanol with gasoline as an automotive fuel. Significance:\u00a0The blending will help in reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, hydrocarbons and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/transport-ministry-invites-comments-for-introducing-adoption-of-e20-fuel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Transport Ministry invites comments for introducing adoption of E20 fuel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1397,1367],"class_list":["post-73816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","tag-eco_9","tag-env_3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700777831,"cached_date":1704666383},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}