Last year the government had set a target of reaching 10% ethanol-blending by 2022 - meaning 10% of ethanol mixed with 90% of gasoline - and 20% by 2030
Sales of gasoil, which account for about two-fifths of India's fuel demand, rose 27.5% from September.
Sales of gasoline, or petrol, rose by 3.3% from a year earlier to 2.45 million tonnes
Global gasoline and diesel demand is expected to return to pre-pandemic levels by 2021-end, although a resurgence in Covid-19 cases would keep consumption fluctuating, several industry executives said
Cooking gas or liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) sales increased 15.7 per cent to 2.08 million tonnes
Trump had ordered members of his Cabinet to review the controversial waiver programme, which exempts small refiners in financial turmoil from their obligation to blend ethanol into gasoline
With daily output last year eventually exceeding demand by as much as 2 million bpd, crude prices fell by around 75% between mid-2014 and early 2016