# Open Fuel Standard Act of 2011 > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Open_Fuel_Standard_Act_of_2011 > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Open_Fuel_Standard_Act_of_2011.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Fuel_Standard_Act_of_2011 > Source revision: 1354694843 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "Open Fuel Standard Act of 2011" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (May 2026) This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Open Fuel Standard Act of 2011" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2026) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message) **Open Fuel Standard Act of 2011** ([H.R. 1687](https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/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.[1] 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](/source/John_Shimkus) [R-IL19] introduced the bill along with Rep [Eliot Engel](/source/Eliot_Engel) [NY-17] ### Cosponsors Rep [Bartlett, Roscoe G.](/source/Roscoe_Bartlett) [MD-6] Rep [Berman, Howard L.](/source/Howard_Berman) [CA-28] Rep [Blumenauer, Earl](/source/Earl_Blumenauer) [OR-3] Rep [Boswell, Leonard L.](/source/Leonard_Boswell) [IA-3] Rep [Braley, Bruce L.](/source/Bruce_Braley) [IA-1] Rep [Andre Carson](/source/Andre_Carson) [IN-7] Rep [Cole, Tom](/source/Tom_Cole) [OK-4] Rep [Dold, Robert J.](/source/Robert_Dold) [IL-10] Rep [Engel, Eliot](/source/Eliot_Engel) [NY-17] Rep [Israel, Steve](/source/Steve_Israel) [NY-2] Rep [Henry C. "Hank," Jr](/source/Hank_Johnson). [GA-4] Rep [Loebsack, David](/source/David_Loebsack) [IA-2] Rep [McDermott, Jim](/source/Jim_McDermott) [WA-7] Rep [Peterson, Collin C.](/source/Collin_Peterson) [MN-7] Rep [Ross, Dennis](/source/Dennis_A._Ross) [FL-12] Rep [Schwartz, Allyson Y.](/source/Allyson_Schwartz) [PA-13] ## Supporting organizations [The Open Fuel Standards Coalition](/source/Open_Fuel_Standard_Coalition) [Renewable Fuels Association](/source/Renewable_Fuels_Association)[2] [Set America Free](/source/Set_America_Free) [Methanol Institute](https://www.methanol.org/) [American Coalition for Ethanol](https://www.ethanol.org) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** 112th Congress, "The Library of Congress: Thomas", 5/3/2011, ([http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr1687ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr1687ih.pdf](https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr1687ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr1687ih.pdf)), 6/14/2011 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Open Fuel Standard Coalition, "OFS Supporters", 6/20/2011, ([http://www.openfuelstandard.org/2011/05/our-purpose.html](http://www.openfuelstandard.org/2011/05/our-purpose.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20110601014401/http://www.openfuelstandard.org/2011/05/our-purpose.html) 2011-06-01 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)), 6/20/2011 --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Open Fuel Standard Act of 2011](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Fuel_Standard_Act_of_2011) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Fuel_Standard_Act_of_2011?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.