Emphasising that ethanol blending helped save almost 32 million tonnes of crude oil, Road & Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari told Parliament on Thursday that petrol would have cost ₹125 per litre during the peak of the West Asia conflict had ethanol blending not been there.

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Emphasising that ethanol blending helped save almost 32 million tonnes of crude oil, Road & Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari told Parliament on Thursday that petrol would have cost…