加州州長阿諾史瓦辛格18日簽訂「低碳燃料標準」，這是全球第一份限制燃料中含碳量的行政命令，往後電動車、油電混合車和氫動力車的發展，勢必更具競爭力。
二氧化碳是最普遍的溫室氣體，將日光熱能裹在地表，導致溫度上升。加州，是全球第12大排放二氧化碳的經濟體。
阿諾表示，「加州和美國其他地區一樣，在交通需求上過度依賴石油，事實上，96%運輸燃料就是石油，這表示加州40%溫室氣體排放是來自交通運輸。」
「讓加州運輸燃料中含碳比例減少10%，表示我們將把20%的石油消耗量以低碳燃料取代，這樣的規模是目前國內再生能源市場的3倍，而這將能增加700萬輛使用替代能源的運輸工具上路。」
「低碳燃料標準」將適用於煉油廠、混料廠和交通燃料進出口商。這個標準將透過市場機制，排放量低於標準的廠商可獲得排放額度，留待將來使用，或者可以將排放額度銷售給不合標準的供應商。
為了達到標準，供應商將購買更多低碳乙醇燃料以混入汽油產品，他們也可向符合標準的電動車廠購買排放額度，或生產低碳氫燃料，當然也可以研發新技術。
阿諾說，「全球企業都在投資數十億美元研發替代能源和綠色科技，加州首開先例訂簽訂這條行政命令，歡迎大家來加州投資！」
Electric, hybrid and hydrogen vehicles got a power boost today as California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed an Executive Order establishing the world's first greenhouse gas standard for transportation fuels - the Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
California is the world’s 12th largest source of carbon dioxide, the most prevalent greenhouse gas that blankets the Earth, trapping the Sun's heat close to the planet and raising the global temperature.
"Like the rest of the nation, California relies excessively on oil to meet its transportation needs," Governor Schwarzenegger said today. "In fact, 96 percent of our transportation fuel is oil. And that means our transportation fuels are responsible for more than 40 percent of California's greenhouse gas emissions."
"Reducing the carbon content of transportation fuels sold in California by just 10 percent means we will replace 20 percent of our gasoline consumption with lower-carbon fuels, more than triple the size of the state's renewable fuels market, and add seven million alternative fuel vehicles to our roads," the governor said.
The Low Carbon Fuel Standard applies to all refiners, blenders, producers or importers of transportation fuels in California. It may be met through market-based methods by which providers exceeding the performance required by the standard will receive credits that may be applied to future obligations or traded to providers not meeting the standard.
To meet the standard, fuel providers may purchase and blend more low-carbon ethanol into gasoline products, they can purchase credits from electric utilities supplying power to electric passenger vehicles, diversify into low carbon hydrogen as a product, or use new strategies yet to be developed.
"Right now, entrepreneurs from around the world are investing billions of dollars in clean technologies and alternative fuels. With this initiative, we are saying invest in California," invited Schwarzenegger.
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