By mandate, all oil marketing companies across India are selling E20 since April 1, 2026. The official objective is to cut down on expensive crude oil imports by blending domestically produced ethanol from food crops that support farmers, and to reduce tailpipe emissions.
But if we take a hard look under the hood of this policy, this strategy to progressively increase the ethanol blend in petrol, starts to look like a double-edged sword.
