France Pushes Wider Use of Flex-Fuel Cars by 2007

Cars that can run on ethanol or conventional fuel will be widely available from September 2007 to ease France’s dependency on fossil fuels, French Finance Minister Thierry Breton said on Tuesday.

He also said that at least 500 pumps of ethanol-based E85 fuel would be installed in main French cities and in motorway service stations by then.

France has a network of 13,000 fuel pumps.
Agriculture minister Dominique Bussereau said France had the agricultural capacity to supply demand for ethanol without resorting to imports or threaten needs for human consumption.

He added that 400,000 hectares of cereals and sugar beet out of 10 million hectares grown would be sufficient to satisfy the biofuel incorporation target of seven percent.

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