Umesh Arya

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Default on farm loan, State will waive it. Burn rice stubble, State will ignore it. Steal electricity, State will subsidise it. Attack police, State will allow it. Eke an honest salary, State will tax it.

State will reward defaulters, polluters, and rioters, not honest citizens.

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

This notification is one of the most important fuel documents of the decade.

Let me explain what just happened.

The government charges a tax called excise duty on petrol. This paper says petrol mixed with 22%, 25%, 27% or 30% ethanol will pay zero excise duty.

Zero tax is the government's way of telling oil companies, start blending more ethanol, we will make it worth your investment.

This was coming.

On May 15, the Bureau of Indian Standards quietly notified IS 19850:2026, the official specification for E22, E25, E27 and E30 petrol. So they have mentioned the standard, and then the tax exemption.

But why is the government in such a hurry?

Three reasons;

Reason 1

The programme has been a genuine success on its own terms. India hit 20% blending in 2025, five years ahead of the original 2030 timeline.

Twenty years ago we could barely manage 5%. Crude imports fell, foreign exchange was saved, and over ₹1.18 lakh crore has gone to farmers through ethanol purchases.

For a country that imports most of its oil, every litre of ethanol is a litre of crude oil we did not buy from abroad, making us self-sufficient in our crude oil needs.

Reason 2

There is a supply glut because distilleries went on an expansion spree. India's installed ethanol capacity is close to 20 billion litres a year, with 4 billion more coming, while E20 needs only about 11 to 12 billion litres.

So we have built double the capacity we need. Those plants took loans. They need buyers. The only buyer big enough is the petrol pump.

E20 cannot absorb the supply, so the blend has to go up. The push to E30 is partly climate policy and partly capacity bailout.

Reason 3

Maize has now overtaken sugarcane as the biggest ethanol feedstock, supplying nearly half of all ethanol. The farm lobby behind this programme is now two crops.

But all of this has come at a cost;

When E20 rolled out, regular car owners paid the cost.

A government-funded study by ARAI and Indian Oil found fuel economy dropping up to 6% on E20 depending on the vehicle.

Owners of older cars reported worse.

So even though ethanol is cheaper than petrol. The blending saved money only for oil companies. The pump price you paid did not fall.

On top of that, you got no choice. Most pumps stopped offering plain petrol or E10.

E27 and E30 raise the same questions, with higher stakes. Cars sold in India were made E20-compatible only from around 2023.

There are crores of vehicles on the road before that were never designed for 27 or 30% ethanol. The industry's own target is E30 rollout between 2028 and 2030, which means a huge chunk of today's fleet will still be running when the new fuel arrives.

Brazil is the comparison everyone uses, and it is worth understanding properly.

Brazil runs E27 with nearly universal flex-fuel vehicles. Their cars were built for it over decades. The fuel and the fleet moved together.

So, we are moving the fuel first and hoping the fleet catches up.

So in nutshell, the notification tells oil companies and distilleries to blend more, and it says nothing to the car owners.

Three questions deserve clear answers before E27 petrol shows up at our neighbourhood pump.

1. Will pump prices actually fall this time, since both the ethanol and now the tax are cheaper? Will the zero excise duty gain disappear into oil company margins again?

2. Will older vehicles get a protected option, a pump that still sells E10 or E20 for cars that cannot handle more blending?

3. And will mileage loss be communicated honestly, with numbers, instead of being discovered by drivers at the fuel station?

The ethanol programme is one of the few Indian policies that has been implemented at a break neck pace.

Farmers have earned, imports have fallen, and an entire industry has been built in a decade. That deserves credit.

But going from E10 to E20 strained the system. Going from E20 to E30 with an unprepared vehicle fleet will most likely break it.

30 crore vehicle owners are waiting for answers.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE.....

[Smita Prakash @smitaprakash]

Ammonium Nitrate, 20 Timers, rifle, pistol, cartriges, 350 kilograms of explosives. What the hell was a physician doing with all this? And he kept it in a hospital in Faridabad. This is a war that we are in. Nothing less.
https://t.co/Hl2KXKV85U

[Open Letter @openletteryt]

AAP is urging for protest against pollution in delhi.

meanwhile Punjab, ruled by AAP, is burning stubble to cause this pollution.

Anyone talking about supporting this protest without calling out Punjab govt is a paid lapdog of their paw-paw!🦮

[Mr Sinha @Mrsinha]

Kejriwal ruled Delhi for 13 years
-No protest against pollution ever

Kejriwal is thrown out of power
-Protests against pollution started within 7 months, that too with anti Modi slogans

And you want me to believe, it's not political?

[Namita Balyan @NamitaBalyan]

*Jemimah won one match for India*
-Her thanking Jesus for it : beautiful
-Her father’s involvement in conversion : must be ignored.
-The whole world should apologise to her for speaking againist her father!

*Jadeja won countless matches for India*
-Him thanking Sri Ram : Why bring religion in sports
-Him showing his sword : caste supremacy
-His wife being in BJP : Bigotry
-The whole world should abuse them for being Sanghis

This is exactly how the ecosystem works.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

This is BJP MP Khagen Murmu, lucky to be alive after a murderous attack on his life by a five-hundred-strong mob armed with stones and sticks while he was inspecting flood-affected areas in Nagrakata, Bengal.

No outrage. Because Democracy is alive and kicking in Bengal.

[Ravisutanjani @Ravisutanjani]

🚨 Govt Should Start Privatising Municipalities and Nagar Nigam across India

They are Single Handedly Responsible For Most Local Issues Around.Cleanliness, Local Infra

Full of Corruption and Lack Accountability

[Shambhav Sharma @shambhav15]

Suddenly, after 10 years, “intellectuals” are going to start pointing out the poor state of delhi‘s infrastructure, education, health services, Law and order and water quality

[Shehzad Jai Hind (Chowkidar as per INC ecosystem) @Shehzad_Ind]

For some reason this has gone crazy viral all over again😀😀

3 mins is all it takes to destroy Nehruvian Pseudo Secularism

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

This video should reach everyone 🔥

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

बटे���गे तो कटेंगे।

[Pradeep Bhandari(प्रदीप भंडारी)🇮🇳 @pradip103]

Kharge ji,

I realise you got a call from 10 Janpath to do damage control after you exposed Rahul Gandhi's fake guarantee model.

Let me help you recall lies, loot,deceit, and falsehood

Lies:

- You lied to women of Karnataka and they still await promised 2000 Rs in their account.

Loot:

Who better knows loot then your Chief Minister of Karnataka who looted land of poor in MUDA scam.

Deceit:

The govt employee in Himachal felt cheated after you refused to pay them salaries on time, and so did the farmers who could not get promised 2* lakh loan waiver in Telangana.

Publicity:

Who knows this better than "Shehzada" Rahul ji who takes 40 cameramen for his PR shoots as he attempts to re- launch himself for the 56th time.

#FakePromisesOfCongress

[Ankur Singh @AnkurSingh]

Waqt Badal gaye, jajbaat badal gaye @sardesairajdeep?

[Abhishek @AbhishBanerj]

Hilarious!

PM Modi went to USA and got the investment for semiconductor plant in Kolkata

Now TMC trying to steal credit

CM Mamata thanks Govt of USA, but did not thank Govt of India!

Until few days back, liberals mocked PM Modi's semiconductor mission

Now they want credit!

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

So many languages in this universe,
but Yogeshwar Dutt chooses to speak facts.

[BhikuMhatre @MumbaichaDon]

Kamal Gautam! A Dalit Hindu!!

He Filed RTI against illegal mo$que at Sanjauli in Shimla.

HP CONgress Govt had to admit it was illegal construction.

As a reward-
1. CONgress Govt suspended him from Govt Job
2. Now arrests him

But he refuses to bow down to injustice! True Sanatani Warrior🙌

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

और कितनी स्पष्टता से बोला जाए! @bageshwardham के धीरेन्द्र कृष्ण शास्त्री जी ने जो कहा है, वह हम सब को समझना चाहिए।

[Desidudewithsign @Nikhilsingh21_]

Modi Ji ne War Rukwa di Papa
Got Real 🇮🇳🔥