Colombia's 4,000 service stations are not ready to offer different blends of ethanol, and cannot afford the change. Instead, there are calls to improve the quality of gasoline, which does not require infrastructure investment and can be more readily supplied.
Problems may put brake on flex-fuel plan
RIO DE JANEIRO: By 2016, all cars sold in Colombia will have to be able to run on 85% ethanol. But service stations do not have the money to install new pumps, and the sugar-cane industry says it cannot supply even today's 10% blend.
18 June 2009 22:00 GMT
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25 November 2012 9:48 GMT
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