China pushing forward with ethanol but E10 unclear

In China, Agence France Presse reports that the country to move forward with its ethanol expansion plans for 2020 with an eye towards promoting large-scale cellulosic ethanol production using straw and forestry waste but no mention was made of the E10 mandate originally planned and later put on hold. Huge corn harvests back-to-back have left the government with little choice but to divert it to ethanol production while hopes that 30% of the 400 million tons of straw and forestry waste produced every year could eventually become 20 million tons of biofuel.

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