The Fuel Choice for American Prosperity and Security Act is a bipartisan bill to provide consumers with choices at the pump and reduce our dependence on oil. This will create a competitive market for different transportation fuels, forcing traditional gasoline to compete with cleaner energy alternatives. By incentivizing automakers to make cars that can operate on fuels other than gasoline, we give consumers more choices at the pump and reduce our transportation footprint. It's a commonsense solution is good for consumers and good for the environment

The Fuel Choice for American Prosperity and Security Act encourages automakers to build fuel choice enabled vehicles that can operate on a source other than gasoline. In exchange for building fuel choice into at least half of their fleets in a given year, automakers will receive targeted relief from corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) regulations. These new fuel choice cars will lead to competition in the market, more options for consumers and less dependence on foreign oil. All the alternative fuel sources approved in the bill – biodiesel, E85, M85, natural gas, hydrogen, propane, electricity – are more environmentally friendly than traditional petroleum-based gasoline.

The bill gives automakers the option of reducing their CAFE obligations by four miles per gallon if they make half or more of the vehicles they manufacture in a model year fuel choice enabled vehicles. For example, the Department of Transportation estimates that the Average Fuel Economy that automakers will be required to attain for passenger vehicles for model year 2022 is 49 miles per gallon. If an automaker builds a fleet for model year 2022 in which at least 50% of the cars are fuel choice enabled, the automaker will reduce its CAFE obligation to 45 miles per gallon for model year 2022. Automakers that choose this environmental-friendly option for reducing their CAFE standards are deemed in compliance with their obligations under the Clean Air Act.

The Fuel Choice for American Prosperity and Security Act is not a mandate, and it has no cost to the taxpayer.

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