The ethanol content in gasoline will increase from 30% to 32%, says Geraldo Alckmin.

THE Vice President Geraldo Alckmin announced, this Saturday (20), that mandatory blending of anhydrous ethanol in gasoline will pass from 30% (E30) to 32% (E32) starting Wednesday (24). The increased ethanol content node fossil fuel It was announced during the handover of the first phase of the works. Senator Vicente Emílio Vuolo State Railway and the BR-070 Terminal, in Dom Aquino in Mato GrossoA biofuel industry It was projected that the increase would still be analyzed by… National Council for Energy Policy (CNPE) at the meeting scheduled for this June 24th. According to Alckminthe measure may reduce the price of gasoline for the consumerAnother benefit of E32 This would mean expanding the share of biofuels in Brazilian energy matrixThe vice president also dismissed the importance of renewable fuels for other sectors, such as the air transport"In this time of war […] the world will have to change the ship's fuel and change the aviation kerosene while the Brazil produces SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuel).

Alckmin he stated that, in addition to progress in the biofuels sectorThe government also acts to resolve the trade impasses about beef exports with European Union (EU).

This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.