Aditya

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

Ethanol & E20 have changed my life.
Those days I used to drink, and car used to take me home. These days, car drinks, and I take it home.

[Vishal Singh Jain @VishhalSJain]

🚨 GOVERNMENT OF INDIA: YOUR OWN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS PUBLISHED THIS EVIDENCE FIVE TO SIX YEARS AGO. WE FOUND IT. WHY WAS IT NOT ADDRESSED BEFORE E20 BECAME THE DEFAULT FUEL?

Estimates vary, but approximately 7.5–8 crore to as many as 12 crore legacy two-wheelers—largely carburetted and not engineered or calibrated for E20—are still plying on Indian roads.

That is tens of millions of vehicles whose technical limitations deserved to be examined before a higher ethanol blend was imposed nationwide.

We went looking for what the science actually says happens inside that fleet. Team Bharat is very good at finding information — when it exists, we will find it, and this report is the proof of that, not a claim about it.

STUDY 1 — What ethanol blends do inside an unmodified carburetted engine

Experimental study on unregulated emission characteristics of a two-wheeler with ethanol-gasoline blends (E0 to E50)
Sakthivel, Subramanian & Mathai — Indian Oil Corporation R&D + IIT Delhi Fuel, Vol. 262, 2020.
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2019.116504

A 150cc BS-IV carburetted motorcycle, carburettor untouched, tested E0 through E50. Formaldehyde and acetaldehyde rose linearly with ethanol content — acetaldehyde running more than 3× higher than formaldehyde.

STUDY 2 — What those emissions mean across India's road-transport sector

RTEII: A new high-resolution road transport emission inventory for India
Hakkim, Kumar, Annadate, Sinha & Sinha — IISER Mohali Atmospheric Environment: X, Vol. 11, 2021.
DOI: 10.1016/j.aeaoa.2021.100118

The study measured 74 separately identified VOCs from 72 Indian vehicles and calculated their ozone- and secondary-pollution-formation potential:

1️⃣ Petrol two-wheelers: 52 ± 15.4 g NMVOC/L fuel — among the highest emission factors of the vehicle categories tested
2️⃣ Two-wheelers: 94% of India's road-transport BTEX emissions
3️⃣ Petrol vehicles: approximately 80% of national road-transport NMVOC emissions
4️⃣ Petrol two-wheelers: the highest secondary-organic-aerosol production factor of the categories examined
5️⃣ Petrol's ozone-formation potential: 128 ± 40 g O₃ per litre of fuel burnt
6️⃣ The researchers state that oxygenated VOCs such as acetaldehyde are particularly reactive and can fuel regional ozone formation

Read together: one study shows that increasing ethanol content raises reactive carbonyl emissions in an unchanged carburetted motorcycle; the other shows that petrol two-wheelers already carry an exceptionally high burden of VOC emissions, ozone-forming potential, and secondary aerosol formation across India's road-transport sector.

Before E20 became the default fuel, where was the published fleet-wide assessment of its atmospheric consequences for India's enormous legacy carburetted two-wheeler population?

This evidence existed inside the government's own oil company and Indian public institutions since 2020–2021. Five to six years passed.

For us, the government is not something separate from the people of this country — it is an extension of who we are. When it needs course correction, correcting it is not confrontation. It is our responsibility as citizens.

That is why Team Bharat is relentless, and why we are not hostile. Both are true at once.

Meet us. Bring the data. Sit across the table with us. Let us examine it together.

— Vishal Singh Jain
VSJ Ventures LTD | Team Bharat

Full report 👇
https://t.co/vHFlCydEW4

@OGTeamBharat @Reuters @business @IndianExpress @the_hindu @ttindia @thewire_in @HardeepSPuri @PMOIndia

#Ethanol #AirPollution #Ozone #E20 #PublicHealth #India

[Dr SHRADDHEY KATIYAR @Wegiveyouhealt1]

An ISRO scientist can’t afford a 200 sq yards plot in a tier 2 city of India but a Patwari is owning multiple.

Then you cry begging jobs , visas, tech and latest guns from the west.

Because you deserve it.

[Uday @CoderUday]

I really love the way India solves its problems

-Scientists are resigning? Make rules tight so they can't resign

-Exam papers are leaking? Ban Telegram

-Roads have potholes? Say that you will bring flying busses

-Someone doing hunger strike on paper leak issue? call him anti-national

[Arjun* @mxtaverse]

Egg prices rising due to shortage of poultry feed
India went from cotton exporter to importer
Water table drying up as farmers grow only sugarcane

All so that gannakari can wreck petrol engines with ethanol

[Arjun* @mxtaverse]

Notice how the entire conversation changed from "E20 will save you lots of money" from "pure petrol will cost you more."

We have been pickpocketed, my friends.

[Vishal Singh Jain @VishhalSJain]

Ethanol is a simple molecule. C₂H₅OH.

But it may be writing a much bigger story than its formula suggests.

The story so far:

Flawed Policy → Higher Ethanol Blends ↑ (untuned legacy engines) → Carcinogens ↑ (formaldehyde, acetaldehyde) → Surface Ozone ↑ — 15 of 25 Indian cities now above the Legal Limit → Erratic Monsoons → Doctors already warning of a lung cancer epidemic.

We spent months tracing the policy decisions behind it, and what it's already producing — connecting what's sitting in the public domain that not many have put together:

1️⃣ Untuned Legacy Engines running E20 measurably increase formaldehyde and acetaldehyde in the exhaust — both carcinogens, both ozone precursors.

2️⃣ India's Surface Ozone has worsened every year for 5 straight years — an established fact, per CSE's own six-year dataset. The same 5 years, ethanol content in the fuel rose from 8% to 20%.

3️⃣ A 2025 IISc study just modelled a "safe" aerosol boundary for South Asian monsoon rainfall. We may have less room left than anyone's said out loud.

4️⃣ Formaldehyde and Acetaldehyde — tracked by zero Indian monitoring agencies. Not CPCB. Not SAFAR. Zero.

5️⃣ The fleet most exposed — 75-80 million pre-2020 two-wheelers — has never been directly tested for carbonyl emissions under ethanol blending. As of this year, they have no fuel left except E20.

Our Position: Until that legacy fleet phases out, E20 as the only option at every pump is a flawed policy. Not a case against Ethanol. A case for sequencing it to the fleet that has to run on it.

Monsoon Link: @JamwalNidhi's excellent article for @ChintanIndia — credit where it's due.

Full report 👇
Website - https://t.co/vHFlCydEW4
MD ( minimal ) Site - https://t.co/mo6hMKIZ17

— Vishal Singh Jain
VSJ Ventures LTD | Team Bharat

Six Research Sites

Research 1 - https://t.co/fAifr83k9p
Research 2 - https://t.co/Y7fgQ0ab9Z
Research 3 - https://t.co/g9D7yiRoYf
Research 4 - https://t.co/Corb9hTWhK
Research 5 - https://t.co/HfvaJbSGCL ( will soon publish webpage )
Research 6 - https://t.co/vHFlCydEW4

Writ Petition
https://t.co/G7tCapZflR

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[Vishal Singh Jain @VishhalSJain]

Indian Oil Corporation and IIT Delhi tested an unmodified carbureted BS-IV motorcycle and found that formaldehyde and acetaldehyde emissions increased linearly as ethanol blending rose from E0 through E20 and beyond. Both are reactive carbonyl VOCs involved in photochemical ozone formation. Therefore, mass use of E20 in legacy carbureted two-wheelers can increase the exhaust burden of ozone-forming precursors, particularly in dense, sunny and NOx-polluted Indian cities.

Experimental study on unregulated emission characteristics of a two-wheeler with ethanol-gasoline blends (E0 to E50)

P. Sakthivela, K.A. Subramanianb, Reji Mathaia
Research and Development Centre, Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Sector-13, Faridabad 121007, India
Centre for Energy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India

🔗 https://t.co/oqJlTIuQMW

@IndianOilcl - You knew, but still you went ahead with higher blends of ethanol.

Updating the published site.

— Vishal Singh Jain
VSJ Ventures LTD | Team Bharat

@OGTeamBharat

[Abhay Bhargav @abhaybhargav]

New factory nearly operational today.

All machines in. About to start

No power for the entire day 😒 havent purchased generator yet. Still waiting for machines (till today)

Turns out that the chaps from the electricity board drove past. Saw the hustle bustle of new machines and decided to cut power for the unit.

Our people go to them in the evening and they demand a bribe to enable power to the unit

This is how India industrializes 🤡

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

Remember the plastic straw debate?

I was curious how banning straws globally would stack up against @TheOceanCleanup’s current impact.

US beach cleanup data suggests straws make up just 0.005% of plastic pollution.

The Ocean Cleanup is now stopping 2–5% of global plastic inflow (and growing rapidly)

So our current impact is already ~400–1000x what a global straw ban could ever achieve!

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

UPDATE ⚠️

Sena thug Corporator crept out of hospital at 3AM to dodge @NDTV cameras, rushed home like a coward in the darkness, deployed local goons to shield his colony, some threatened our reporter Abhishek too.

Dadagiri to slap doctors. In reality, a common darpok.

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

Hey! If it's a Hydrogen powered train, why is the name NaMo? That's Sodium Molybdenum.

[Rajat @ARAJAT7]

@the_hindu Chicken, egg prices soaring india

Why ?
Because now corn, soya etc which is feed to chicken is used for ethanol production.

So now indians can pay more for their food also plus they can pay more for adulterated fuel also.

Getting fu...ed from both side..
What a masterstrok

[Drew @drewdamn87]

@NYGovPress “Look at me putting a moratorium on data center while using an AI image that needs data centers”

[Runtime @RuntimeBRT]

🚨 Bengaluru-based Vimag Labs has been granted a fifth patent for their magnet-free electric motor.

This is fully indigenous and uses just copper, steel and standard electronics.

[Nachiket Deshpande @nachiket1982]

Ever wondered why, despite being the largest ethanol producer in the world, the USA hasn't gone beyond 10% blending as their base fuel? This, despite e15 being approved back in 2001 for use in regular vehicles.

Even with 3 decades of Flex-Fuel Vehicles (FFVs) on the road and a 2001 onwards approval for E15, the USA - the world's top ethanol producer - deliberately keeps E10 as its standard baseline to protect vehicle longevity and fuel logistics.

Contrast this with India, where E20 is being aggressively pushed as the standard fuel despite over 80% of the existing vehicle fleet lacking the engineering to safely handle it. Policy must respect automotive reality.
#EthanolScam #NotTheRightFuel

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@FactswithDinesh
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[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

2022: Shraddha Walkar butchered by her boyfriend Aftab Poonawala, pieces scattered.

2025-26: Court permits him to skip hearings due to dental appointment, mental health check & now to take MA Sociology exam.

Gems of our judiciary 🙏🏽

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

"Tahir Hussain organised Delhi riot."
"No. He's framed for his religion."

"There's a video proof."
"Video is fake."

"Police probe indicts him."
"Police Amit Shah ki hai."

"He confessed."
"Daraya gaya hoga."

"Court also convicted him yesterday."
"Court bhi Modi ke control me hain. No justice for innocent MusIims in India."

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Every great scientist was once dismissed by their peers and ridiculed by the public as a madman for their ideas, only to be vindicated decades later as a visionary who changed the world.

The same will happen with Shri Nitin Gadkari. He is facing criticism now, with people calling him names and even abusing him, but remember, one day a Maruti Alto running on 100% ethanol will beat Ferrari in an F1 race, an Indian growing up drinking govt-supplied 100% ethanol from the tap will break Usain Bolt's 100m Olympic record, Vande Bharat running on 100% ethanol will break the space-time continuum and reach Mumbai from Delhi in minus 6.023 x 10²³ seconds, and the first human manend rocket that lands on Pluto will run on 100% ethanol. Only then will people realize who Gadkari truly was.

It is safe to say that he is India's answer to Elon Musk.

[Rahul Roushan @rahulroushan]

When govt says Ethanol blending will help farmers, it irritates me as any rhetoric about benefitting farmers has started irritating me after 'farmer protests'. But those who opposed farm laws should root for Ethanol blending. Annadata will bless you. Put your petrol where your mouth is.