{{Use American English|date=June 2025}} {{mi| {{notability|date=May 2012}} {{update|date=May 2026}} {{refimprove|date=May 2026}} }} '''Open Fuel Standard Act of 2011''' ({{USBill|112|H.R.|1687}}) was a bill in the United States House of Representatives that would have required that a certain portion of light-passenger vehicles sold in the U.S. be alternative fueling vehicles capable of running on something other than just gasoline.<ref>112th Congress, "The Library of Congress: Thomas", 5/3/2011, (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr1687ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr1687ih.pdf), 6/14/2011</ref> The Open Fuel Standard Act does not dictate what types of vehicles are to be sold, only that an increasing percentage of the passenger car fleet sold in the U.S. be capable of running on non-petroleum sources - whether it be natural gas, electric, alcohol fuels, hydrogen or biodiesel, with a catch-all provision for any other sustainable technologies. The bill was intended by its sponsors to ensure that new vehicles enable fuel competition so as to reduce the strategic importance of oil to the United States.
==Sponsors== Rep [[John Shimkus]] [R-IL19] introduced the bill along with Rep [[Eliot Engel]] [NY-17]
===Cosponsors=== Rep [[Roscoe Bartlett|Bartlett, Roscoe G.]] [MD-6]
Rep [[Howard Berman|Berman, Howard L.]] [CA-28]
Rep [[Earl Blumenauer|Blumenauer, Earl]] [OR-3]
Rep [[Leonard Boswell|Boswell, Leonard L.]] [IA-3]
Rep [[Bruce Braley|Braley, Bruce L.]] [IA-1]
Rep [[Andre Carson]] [IN-7]
Rep [[Tom Cole|Cole, Tom]] [OK-4]
Rep [[Robert Dold|Dold, Robert J.]] [IL-10]
Rep [[Eliot Engel|Engel, Eliot]] [NY-17]
Rep [[Steve Israel|Israel, Steve]] [NY-2]
Rep [[Hank Johnson|Henry C. "Hank," Jr]]. [GA-4]
Rep [[David Loebsack|Loebsack, David]] [IA-2]
Rep [[Jim McDermott|McDermott, Jim]] [WA-7]
Rep [[Collin Peterson|Peterson, Collin C.]] [MN-7]
Rep [[Dennis A. Ross|Ross, Dennis]] [FL-12]
Rep [[Allyson Schwartz|Schwartz, Allyson Y.]] [PA-13]
==Supporting organizations== [[Open Fuel Standard Coalition|The Open Fuel Standards Coalition]]
[[Renewable Fuels Association]]<ref>Open Fuel Standard Coalition, "OFS Supporters", 6/20/2011, (http://www.openfuelstandard.org/2011/05/our-purpose.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110601014401/http://www.openfuelstandard.org/2011/05/our-purpose.html |date=2011-06-01 }}), 6/20/2011</ref>
[[Set America Free]]
[https://www.methanol.org/ Methanol Institute]
[https://www.ethanol.org American Coalition for Ethanol]
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