Growth In Ethanol Demand In India
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Posted by Chuck Zimmerman – September 19th, 2005
It isn’t just the United States that’s in on the ethanol growth wave. According to a story in the Mumbai, India, Financial Express, “India’s demand of alcohol for blending and other purposes is expected to reach 2,300 million litres by 2009-10 at 5% blending level.” That’s about 608 million gallons if I did my math right. (1 litres = 0.264172051 US gallons)
The story also says that they make ethanol from molasses and that there won’t be enough sugarcane and molasses production there to meet this expected need.