An open fuel standard would mean the end of the petroleum standard, which the
world has been stuck with since the early twentieth century. It means
the end of a one-fuel economy and the beginning of a free market for
transportation fuel.
Many excellent fuels are
available that cost less and burn cleaner than gasoline, but our cars
were made in such a way that we cannot put these fuels in our cars. An
open fuel standard would change this. With only a few small tweaks to
the manufacture of a car, it would be capable of burning methanol,
ethanol, butanol, and gasoline — in any combination or proportion. Each car would become a platform upon which fuels could compete.
The
repercussions of real fuel competition
would be enormous. When cars start
rolling off assembly lines capable of burning multiple fuels, gasoline
prices would have to come down to compete, new jobs would be created by
companies scrambling to get a piece of the hundreds of billions of
dollars Americans spend on fuel per year, less CO2 and other pollutants
would spill into the air,
landfills would have significantly less bulk, rural people in developing
countries would raise their standards of living, women in oppressive
OPEC nations would see the regimes holding them down begin to weaken,
America's national security would improve without costing taxpayers any
more money, and you, the consumer, would finally be able to have as much
choice with your fuel as you do with your coffee.
Learn more on YouTube: What is the Open Fuel Standard?
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