Australia’s oil majors all miss 2 percent ethanol blending targets in New South Wales; state political opposition questions move in ‘09 to E6 mandate.

In Australia, the opposition Liberal-National Party coalition in New South Wales released documentation that none of the oil majors blended enough ethanol since 2007 to meet the state’s two percent ethanol mandate. The opposition questioned the government’s introduction of a six percent ethanol mandate to take effect in 2009. Local oil officials said that they believed that a 10 percent mandate was, in fact, more feasible than the proposed six percent figure enshrined by the state government in legislation.

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