Aspi Bhathena

For Online Subscription Digital Subscription This month Bike India celebrates its 21st anniversary. It has been 21 years for me with Bike India and yet it feels as if it was just a few years ago that we started the magazine. How time flies. I would like to thank all our readers and manufacturers for their support over the past two decades. Without their support, we would not be where we are today. Thank you very much. We have a very special story for you in this anniversary issue.

Farsighted Fuel Policy: Need of the Hour In our country, everything is done without thinking about the consequences—how something will affect the ordinary citizen. The government has forced ethanol-blended fuel on consumers. The road transport minister, who has nothing to do with the petroleum ministry, keeps justifying the blending of ethanol and forcing car manufacturers to make cars that are E20 and E30 compatible. Now he wants to bring in E85 and 100 per cent ethanol fuel.

For Online Subscription Digital Subscription The war in West Asia has given rise to a fuel shortage, and this has given an excuse to the Indian government to try to increase ethanol blending in petrol. As of this day, 85 to 90 per cent of two-wheelers on the road are not even five to 10 per cent ethanol-compliant. What happens to the majority of consumers is that they perforce have to suffer all the problems caused by ethanol blending.