Lateral Thinking

@zoo_bear Bhakts sarcasm nhi samjhenge.

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Found this video on Instagram that explains the potential damage caused by ethanol blended petrol, from a chemical perspective.

@AarizRizvi Wait for the crude prices go below $70 and see all this nonsense go away.

Maruti Suzuki has launched the Wagon R Bioflex at ₹7.24 lakhs, capable of running on E85 fuel (85% ethanol blend). While it's an interesting step towards alternative fuels, I can't help but question the economics from a buyer's perspective. The Bioflex costs ₹86,000 more than the equivalent petrol Wagon R. At the same time, ethanol-based fuels typically deliver lower fuel efficiency because ethanol contains less energy per litre than petrol. So yes, E85 may be cheaper at the pump. But if you're consuming significantly more fuel to travel the same distance, does the math really work out in favour of the customer? In many cases, a regular petrol vehicle:
- Costs less to buy
- Delivers better fuel efficiency
- Has a proven long-term reliability track record
- Offers wider fuel availability If the fuel savings don't offset the higher purchase price and reduced mileage, is there a strong value proposition for private buyers today? Of course, there are broader benefits such as reducing crude oil imports and supporting domestic ethanol production. But from a purely consumer-centric standpoint, I'm not yet convinced that an E85-compatible vehicle makes financial sense. Based on the numbers available today, buying an E85-powered vehicle seems more like a compromise than an upgrade. What am I missing here? Is there a compelling economic argument for E85 vehicles that outweighs the higher upfront cost and lower efficiency? Would love to hear different perspectives.

We went from E10 to E20. Now every few months there's a new discussion about E30, E85, flex-fuel, E100. Forget whether ethanol is good or bad for a second. What's the actual endgame? If I buy a petrol car in 2026, what fuel am I realistically expected to run it on in 2030? Government says it's good. Oil companies say it's good. People selling flex-fuel vehicles say it's good. Media repeats it's good. But who's answering the customer spending ₹15 lakh today with no idea what fuel policy will look like 5 years from now?

@HemanNamo I bought Nationalism cert car from Mahindra, with sticker of E20 in 2025, so why is govt coming with E22, E30 so quickly. Do you service will entertain me if car got damaged from higher blends or even E20 for that matter.

“E20 is destroying engines” was always overblown fear. Thread proves: - Only physics-based mileage drop - Modern Indian fleet already compatible - Old cars phased out via scrappage - Big wins: Farmers + forex + 5 years ahead of target Science > Viral outrage. Share this thread 👇

I want every petrol pump to display these boards, so customers can clearly see whether they are buying 100% petrol or petrol blended with ethanol and compare prices.

"People once laughed at the idea of using 100% ethanol and negative campaigns were also launched to stop the ethanol project, but now this dream seems to be becoming a reality." — Nitin Gadkari

We must assume that in India where everything is adulterated to food, medicines, milk paneer, sweets spices, and govt is pushing for higher ethanol blends no petrol pump will give pure petrol. It will be all be more less same blend which ever is most common, whether its E20 presently, 25, 30 later on.

XP100 is not pure petrol. Consumers don’t see any real difference in mileage or performance, yet paying ₹165 per litre feels like a massive scam in India.

E100 E20 E10 Please stop this nonsense and reduce tax as well I want to own a car but due to taxes…..

🚨 E20 debate just got bigger. ICICI Lombard says damage linked to E20 fuel use in non-compatible vehicles may be treated as “improper use” or “negligence”, potentially affecting insurance claims. This raises an important question: if E20 is becoming increasingly common at fuel stations, can vehicle owners alone be held responsible for compatibility-related issues? With millions of pre-April 2023 vehicles still on Indian roads, the need for clear guidance from OEMs, fuel retailers, insurers and regulators has never been greater. What are your thoughts? 🤔 #E20 #EthanolBlending #AutoInsurance #CarsIndia

@TheWisemanPro @narendramodi Modi will not toppled in this life time, he will only go if he thinks he has fched India beyond repair, then he will sit in opposition, watch India crumble due to his policy failures, blame Congress for catastrophe and come again in next elections with even bigger mandate.

this is enough to topple @narendramodi govt in 2029

@virgojyoti02 E100 is rolled out to protect car companies. Now when a consumer will go to service center with a damage from E20 fuel, center will claim u use E20, or E100. Consumer will not have anything to prove otherwise, no platform will support consumer. Neither courts, insurances, etc.

E100 is a bad idea. Not because ethanol is bad. But because this is not how you do it. Brazil is the only country in the world that has made ethanol fuel actually work at scale. They started in 1975. It took them thirty years. And the order in which they did it matters. First they built the cars. Millions of them, flex-fuel vehicles that could handle ethanol. The fuel infrastructure came after, once the demand was already sitting in driveways across São Paulo and Rio. By the time Brazilians were filling up on pure ethanol, they had spent decades building the engine technology, the pump network, the supply chain, and the price stability to make it viable. Even then it had rough patches. India has done it the other way around. We announced the fuel before the cars exist. The flex-fuel fleet right now is one Wagon R and some Hero bikes. That is not a fleet. That is a pilot project dressed up as a policy. This is not just it, other issue are: Ethanol in India comes mostly from sugarcane. And sugarcane is one of the thirstiest crops we grow. It needs four to five times more water than most other crops. In Maharashtra, which is our biggest sugarcane state, that has always been a tension that everyone quietly lives with. Now go to Vidarbha. This is the eastern part of Maharashtra. Cotton country. Drought country. The region where farmer suicides made headlines for years because the rains failed and the debt did not. Water here is not a policy question. It is a survival question. A farmer in Yavatmal or Wardha will tell you that a bad monsoon does not mean a bad harvest. It means a bad year for everything. Sugarcane is already creeping into this region because the ethanol push has made it more profitable than cotton. And if E100 scales the way the government wants it to, that pressure gets stronger. More farmers in water-scarce land will shift to a crop that drinks water like it is free. The ones who can afford a borewell will go deeper. The ones who cannot will watch their neighbours do it and worry. Nobody in the E100 announcement talked about this. The government will say farmers should be free to grow what is profitable. That is fair. But policy that makes one choice significantly more profitable than another is not neutral. It is a nudge. And nudging water-stressed farmers in Vidarbha toward sugarcane is a nudge with consequences that will show up not in a press conference but in a groundwater report five years from now. Then there is the trust problem sitting on top of all of this. Last April, E20 replaced regular petrol at 90,000 pumps without much warning. Mileage dropped. Repairs came up. A man in Chennai spent close to ₹4 lakh on fuel-related damage. The government's response was essentially that people were spreading misinformation. That is not how you bring people along. So now E100 arrives and people are not starting from neutral. They are starting from angry. Here is what would have actually made sense. Pick three or four cities. Pune, Lucknow, Coimbatore, one more. Build a proper E100 pilot there. Put the pumps in. Work with one or two carmakers to get a few thousand flex-fuel vehicles on the road in those cities. Run it for two years. Measure the mileage honestly. Publish the cost per kilometre in plain numbers. Let a family in Pune tell their cousin in Nagpur that their monthly fuel bill actually went down. That cousin will want in. That is how Brazil did it. That is how you build a market. Instead we have a national announcement, a handful of cars, almost no pumps, unresolved water questions, unhappy farmers in the wrong regions growing the wrong crop for the wrong reasons, and a public that has already been burned once and is not in a mood to be told to trust the process again. E100 could have been a good story. Grow your own fuel, keep the money at home, give farmers a second income, reduce the import bill. All of that is real and worth doing. But a good idea launched badly does not stay a good idea for long. It just becomes the next thing people are angry about.

@chinmay This is just what I have always felt, UPSC is just a glorified essay writing competition, which is artificially made difficult, not for a requirement of technicality but only coz they have to filter 1000 out of lakhs. Babus use their brain for one test, then shut off their brains

Indians are blaming Infy/Murthy/Nandan for a lack of home-grown LLM. But that blame is misplaced. Infy/Murthy/Nandan could never start an AI company. They had money and they could have fund something. But that again, is their money and why should they risk it? The real culprit here is Amitabh Kant and other IAS like him. These are the people, why I left India and started two companies in the US. These are the people, why much of Indian talent left to work for US based companies. And these folks did well. Let's say the government gives me $10B and ask me to set up an AI lab in India. Am I qualified to do it? YES. Will I do it? HELL NO And you would ask why? Some would say that I have a cozy life in the US. Some would say, I have deep connection in the US, including family. All of that is correct but does not pin point the reason why I wont start a company in India. The real reason is Babu. Unlike, many In India who think competing for 1000 seats using some bullshit essay writing contest makes Babu some wizard, I have not come across one, I will hire as an analyst. Under no circumstance, I am gonna report to a babu (Happy report to Dharmendra Pradhan or Smriti Irani though). Also, under no circumstances, I will accept a position where I am unable to fire and put an IAS in jail if they reported to me and indulged in some corruption. Till this babu problem is fixed, no NRI would come to India. If I were the CIA or CCP, trying to ensure that India does not gain AI independence, I would make every effort to protect Babu fiefdom.

@ThenNowForeve Atleast this cringe will not passed on in the world.

DINK(Double income No Kids) couples ka aadha life doosre ko ye dikhaane me jaata hai ki they are happy and doing good without kids ,while being jealous of people who are actually happy

@IndianGems_ This beggar govt need 150 B USD each year from expats but not their responsibility. They think a person can just leave their job right in middle of ocean and swim back to India on basis of their vague advisory. I hope I watch to see monsters like Bagree suffer in my liftetime.

"The tragic loss of three Indian sailors is a collateral damage but they themselves were responsible for it." — Rishi bagree, Influencer

@TARUNspeakss Or lose your job. Secondly at sea US army had lots of option that wud hv act as deterrent, rather than straight away firing live missiles on engine room, ship was civilian, may its captain was avid viewers of hindi news channel and believed that Modi ka danka baj reha Vishaw me.

@TARUNspeakss India is dependant on 150 B $ yearly from NRIs, expats but this govt and its bootlickers never have credited them. In every conflict they issue a vague advisory, but I knw dis when u r working for a firm, u can't just say I don't to work here or there. You hv to keep workng.

Even USA couldn’t defend killing of 3 Indian nationals like Bagree did for USA. For him it was a collateral damage & they themselves were responsible for it!! This is BJP IT Cell. These are the real anti-nationals. Only BJP & Modi’s image matters to them.

@aravind Hello GLISCO DS, problem is high fuel charges, high airport fees, high govt taxes. Airline industry is already very capital heavy industry, so it's surprise majority of airlines fails. Etihad and Emirates are supported by respective state entities. Not everything is GLISCO DS.

I'm telling this again: My hunch is Air India & Indigo are being run down by the GLISCO-DS using insiders and other sabotage. It's time India takes action. First step must be to make sure the CEO and board are Indian patriots. Not foreigners and Indians with foreign interests. At a time when India's aviation sector must be growing and Indian carriers becoming top international carriers bringing revenue to India, we are seeing the reverse happening. So this rout of AI doesn't seem organic. There's no way a company like TATA can't run an airline in partnership with Singapore Airlines to at least do as well as an Ethihad or Malaysian, if not Emirates and Qatar. This is unacceptable.

@taxpayer1978 Absolutely right here is data supporting claim from actual resources.

India can overtake US and China, only if Narendra Modi is made a PM of those countries.

@captsinghjs And thats is the reason I don't want high ethanol blends along with E20 fuel. Once they start selling higher blends, even if our cars had problems witb E20, service center might simply claim that car was filled with higher blends, customer has no way to proof otherwise.

Damage to ENGINE by incorrect Fuel is not covered by Insurance companies. #e20fuel