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Argentina establishes mandatory E5 and help for the sugarcane industry

The President of Argentina, Néstor Kirschner, signed a bill (yet to be passed by the Senate) to promote sugarcane ethanol. This helps the recently passed Biofuels Bill, which establishes a mandatory five percent ethanol blend in all gasolines. Currently, Argentinians can already buy a blend of gasoline and ethanol called alconafta (E12) but by 2010, all gasolines will have to include at least 5 percent of ethanol. The new bill is aimed to stimulate the rural economy of the northern provinces of the country, specially Tucumán, and ... Read more →

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