Gasoline type C
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Brazil has been blending ethanol to its gasoline since 1920, however, only during the oil shortages of the 1970s, it became mandatory to add from 20% to 25% ethanol to Brazilian gasoline.
Every year, the Ministry of Agriculture, based on the sugarcane crops' forecasts, determines the precise percentage. The percentage is never less than 20%, nor more than 25%.
Therefore, the Gasoline type C is a blended gasoline solution. Before blending became mandatory, pure gasoline, now called Gasoline type A, was sold.
By Brazilian law, you can not sell Gasoline Type A to the end consumer. Only refineries and distribution companies are allowed to handle it. Because gasoline sold in Brazilian service stations must always be a 20%-25% Type C blend, it has to have been blended with Ethanol somewhere along the supply chain.
