Energy Department Offers Petroleum Reduction Planning Tool

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Energy's Alternative Fuels Data Center (AFDC) has developed a new tool to help fleets reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

by Staff

September 11, 2012

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Fleets can go online and create a comprehensive reduction plan by using several savings methods.

WASHINGTON – The Alternative Fuels Data Center (AFDC), a resource of the U.S. Department of Energy's Clean Cities program and administered by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, has developed a new tool to help fleets reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Fleets can go online to the AFDC website and create a comprehensive reduction plan by using several savings methods. Users plug in their current annual petroleum use and then set a petroleum reduction goal by percentage and total gallons reduced.

If your fleet includes multiple vehicle types, add more vehicles to each of the following methods:

Replacing vehicles.
Using alternative fuels in existing vehicles.
Reducing idling.
Reducing mileage.
Driving efficiently.

The tool is available at www.afdc.energy.gov/prep.

By Grace Suizo

Topics:Alternative Fuels Data Center U.S. Department of Energy petroleum reduction Greenhouse Gas Strategies Green Fleet

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