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Learning, unlearning and re-learning!

[आकाश @AkashBasisth]

Love like there is no tomorrow. And if tomorrow comes, love again.

[आकाश @AkashBasisth]

@Fintech00 Same here, I spent ₹9/lt more for speed variant petrol of Bharat Petroleum thinking it has less ethanol. I wanted to check if it will increase the mileage. 😂😂

[आकाश @AkashBasisth]

@prashnaxd She is not totally incorrect.

[Jahazi @Oye_Jahazi]

Sabse sahi Akali Dal hai. 1 MP hai and 1 MLA. Dono ghar ki ladies. Ye toote toh sidha divorce hi hoga.

[🅱🆄🅽🅽🆈🥳🚩 @aakash_lakhia]

Vishwas rakh bhai

[Sincere Dibya @TheSincereDude]

A policy affecting 140 crore people; signed at 8PM, announced at a press conference the next morning.

No White Paper. No Parliamentary debate. No public consultation. No independent impact study.

Just a minister, a pen, and a family business waiting on the other side.

Let’s talk about what this “policy” actually is:

→ Son Nikhil’s company Cian Agro: ₹18Cr → ₹523Cr revenue in one year

→ Their stock: ₹37 → ₹638. A 2,184% surge; while “the file” was being drafted

→ Son Sarang: Director at Manas Agro. Also in ethanol. Also quietly booming.

Father writes the regulations. Sons hold the equity.

And we’re supposed to call this a “national dream.”

In any functioning democracy, a minister with direct family financial interests in a sector CANNOT unilaterally regulate that sector.

That’s not politics, that’s a constitutional principle.

Where is the Lokpal?
Where is the Prime Minister?
Where is the Parliament?

The dream isn’t about ethanol.

The dream is about a country where accountability has been fully, quietly, abolished.

[Jyoti @virgojyoti02]

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.

[Damn. @Theonenameddamn]

Brazil was one of the first countries to widely adopt E100 fuel, but it later shifted to a flex-fuel system. We should have at least learned from the challenges Brazil faced before pursuing a similar path.

>Crop prices increased.

>Less land was available for food crops.

>Soil degradation

>Water resources were depleted and polluted.

>Cold-start issues affected vehicles

>Ethanol delivered lower mileage than petrol.

>Ethanol shortages occurred during poor harvests.

>Fuel prices became more volatile.

>Biodiversity suffered due to agricultural expansion.

>Dependence on a single crop increased economic risk.

>Food security concerns grew.

>Ethanol production competed with food production.

>Seasonal fluctuations affected ethanol availability.

[आकाश @AkashBasisth]

@KrishnaaKhanal Good morning

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@ThugLifeIndia Third kid saw the future..... Calling Neymar as Bemar

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@kingofsmileD @clashreport No way, Neymar will get ACL injury by jumping like this.

[Param @ParamSiddh]

AI can never replace me.
Me:

[आकाश @AkashBasisth]

@KrishnaaKhanal ❤️

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

The only way Neymar is playing the World Cup

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@KrishnaaKhanal ❤️

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@KrishnaaKhanal जहाँ छन् बुद्धका आँखा प्लिज।।।।।

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@KrishnaaKhanal ❤️

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@Oye_Jahazi Splendour will get the Super Bike title if it enters the Pakistani market.

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@KrishnaaKhanal ❤️

[आकाश @AkashBasisth]

@mainbhiengineer BJP has been digging its own grave, it's just that people have not found a worthy replacement yet. Once a new viable face surfaces, the BJP will crumble. It may take time, but it will happen. New generation comes with new ideas and hope, but BJP and INC haven't adapted to reality

[आकाश @AkashBasisth]

@Sam0kayy First school: (Lunar Missions)
1. Ranger
2. Apollo
3. Luna
4. Surveyor

2nd school: (Mountains)
1. Matterhorn
2. Everest
3. Kanchejunga
4. Fujiyama