India Could Replace Gasoline Imports With Ethanol by 2020, _ Bloomberg

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-18/india-could-replace-gasoline-imports-with-ethanol-by-2020-study-shows.html

India, the world’s second fastest- growing automobile market, could replace gasoline imports with ethanol by 2020 if policies and infrastructure are put in place to promote the green fuel, a report said.

India can potentially harvest enough bagasse, rice husk and sugar waste to produce as much as 50 billion liters (13 billion gallons) of ethanol without relying on food crops or disrupting agricultural land-use, according to a report today by Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah.

That would be enough to replace 86 percent of gasoline demand and remove the need for imports, according to the report, done by Bloomberg New Energy Finance for Novozymes A/S, the world’s biggest maker of industrial enzymes.
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one qualification here: they have to solve the technical problems of making ethanol from cellulosic sources.