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Energy Policy Act (EPAct)
The Energy Policy Act (EPAct) is Federal legislation to reduce the consumption of petroleum-based fuels for transportation. It is administered by the Department of Energy and primarily focuses on replacing petroleum-based fuels with alternative non-petroleum fuels. It originated in 1992 with very aggressive goals of replacing 10% of petroleum-based motor fuels by 2000, and 30% by 2010. Its actual progress to date has lagged these goals by a considerable amount. The primary strategy for increasing the use of alternatively-fueled vehicles has been to require state and federal fleets to purchase these vehicles. Alternative fuel providers have also been required to purchase alternative fuel vehicles and starting in 2002, some municipal and private fleets are provided with purchasing guidelines. Although these fleets have provided a market for thousands of new alternative fuel vehicles, and all of the major automakers have alternative fuel models available, they only consumer about 1-2% of the total fuel supply. Even when ethanol (E10) is included the total alternative fuel consumption is only about 3% of the supply.
Biodiesel was not originally included in the list of EPACT-defined alternative fuels, but B100 was quickly added. However B20 has a special exemption and is handled on a pro-rated basis. Essentially, five conventional diesel-powered heavy-duty vehicles fueled with B20 can be counted as one alternative fuel vehicle. The regulations require that the vehicles must actually be fueled with B20 or a higher blend and consumption equal to 450 gallons is considered to be equal to one vehicle. More information about the EPACT program is available at:
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