Brazil to study increase in ethanol-gasoline pump blend to 30%: minister

Brazil will study a potential increase to the volume of anhydrous ethanol blended with gasoline sold at the pump, the latest move by the administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to expand biofuels consumption and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. Mines and Energy Minister Alexandre Silveira plans to propose studies that would increase the ethanol-gasoline pump blend to 30% from…