Scramble for Zimbabwe ethanol

Scramble for Zimbabwe ethanol
Published: 21 October 2013
Some Sadc countries are scrambling for Chisumbanje ethanol as the world embraces environmentally-friendly fuels amid indications that South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia and Malawi have approached Green Fuel with a view to sealing deals.

This comes barely a week after Zimbabwe raised its ethanol blending ratio with petrol to 10%, with indications the figure will gradually increase.

Zimbabwe uses 1.5 million litres of petrol daily and with such a blending ratio of 90%, unleaded petrol and 10% ethanol, it means only 150 000 litres of ethanol will be used out of over half a million litres produced daily. Green Fuel general manager Graham Smith confirmed other countries were after the ethanol adding that Green Fuel had potential to become a key regional exporter of ethanol, earning the country millions of US dollars.
- herald
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