Brazil aims to beat pollution with new fuel mix

  • 01/12/1997

  • Financial Express (New Delhi)

Brazil's smoke-clogged cities will have to wait at least until mid-1999 to see the first urban bus fleet run on a new pollution-busting fuel mix, industry sources say. Government and industry bodies first teamed up last August to find a mix which would be clean, commerically viable and have the side-benefits of stimulating flagging demand for alcohol and cutting Brazil's bill for diesel imports.