Last Friday, the Oregon legislature implemented a new reporting mandate for fuel providers in the state. In an effort to encourage the use of more environmentally friendly transportation fuels, distributors will be required to report the carbon content of vehicle fuel they provide to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality.
Lawmakers may take the clean fuel rules one step further in the new year by requiring retailers to reduce the carbon content of fuel by 10 percent per gallon by the year 2025. Many hope these new standards will spur clean energy innovation and the adoption of green transportation technology in the state. Companies could comply by blending in renewable fuels or by substituting cleaner alternative fuels.
According to Darren Engle of Blue Star Gas, this clean fuel mandate also presents a unique business opportunity: “full adoption of the low-carbon fuel standard would create an 
incentive for companies to convert fleets to run on propane, generating pollution credits that could be sold to high-polluting fuel suppliers.”
So, if lowering fuel costs, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and utilizing an American-made fuel weren’t already compelling enough reasons for Oregon fleets to shift to propane autogas, now they have one more incentive! We’ll certainly be keeping an eye on updates to the Oregon’s Clean Fuels Program as they continue to develop.
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