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#WATCH | Delhi: On Ethanol, Dr Chandra Kumar Jain, President of the Grain Ethanol Manufacturers Association, says, "Phase one is developed. There's always a scope of improvement. So we are on the phase of improving the working, improving the efficiency, reducing the cost. It is developed fully, is able to supply whatever our country need. But tomorrow you need efficiency like what foreign countries, Brazil, US has those efficiencies, we are lagging in those efficiencies. So we need to improve that. So we want to go up to that place." "By developing, I means plants have been set up. I won't say they are inefficient, but it needs more development to increase the efficiency. So that is phase two. Phase one is plant set up, they are producing. But it needs some more improvements in their processing. So we are doing that. Not that it is underdeveloped. The capacity is already set up at 1800 crore litres. Whereas the consumption right now is going 1200 crore litres. Capacity is more. E85 are the separate vehicles. They are flexi-fuel vehicles where you can use E20 also, E85 also or you can use the blend of that. So development of those vehicles will take some time, their dispensing will also take some time. Then what is going to happen in future is every petrol pump will have two nozzles. As I'm quoting the Brazilian model, which is more successful in ethanol. So all petrol pumps have two nozzles, one is the base petrol. Base petrol in some countries is 10%, somewhere is 20%, and in Brazil it is now going to be 30%. So if you want zero, you won't get. So E20 is a base now. And another nozzle will be E85, which will be cost effective..."