根據2日加州大學研究交通運輸能量專家發表的報告指出，駕駛者在未來幾年將能繼續使用仰賴汽油推動的汽車，因為燃料提供商會自行降低汽油燃料造成的全球暖化效應。這是根據加州首次完整的「低碳燃料標準」（Low Carbon Fuel Standard）報告。
2007年1月加州州長阿諾‧史瓦辛格已委令相關專家擬定這個低碳燃料的標準，在2020年之前，要使來自汽油燃料的二氧化碳排放減少10%。
加州大學柏克萊分校永續交通運輸研究中心教授法羅（Alex Farrell）與戴維斯分校交通運輸研究所教授史柏林（Daniel Sperling），在兩份報告的第二部分，詳細鋪陳出該標準將如何達成。
他們建議按照新標準只要在近幾年慢慢減少碳濃度，而在之後有更新燃料科技之後再進行更大幅度的減碳量。該報告提議石油燃料提供廠商可以不同方式減少他們的溫室氣體排放量。
廠商可以將更多生質燃料混合到汽油和柴油當中，也可以向其他生產者購買低碳燃料和碳排放額度（emissions credits）。另外，廠商也可增進精煉廠的效能，以及使用低碳能源為精煉廠的燃料。欲了解「低碳燃料標準」報告的完整內容請參見這裡。
Drivers will be able to keep their gasoline-powered cars for many years, as fuel providers lower the global warming effects of gasoline, according to the first detailed outline of California's new Low Carbon Fuel Standard released Thursday by University of California transportation energy experts.
The Low Carbon Fuel Standard was commissioned in January by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. He asked the specialists to design a standard that would reduce carbon dioxide emissions from fuels by 10 percent by 2020.
Professor Alex Farrell, director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at UC Berkeley, and Professor Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis spelled out in detail how the standard will work in the second part of a two-part report.
They recommend that the new standard require only modest reductions in carbon intensity in the early years, and greater reductions later, as innovations reach the market.
The report suggests that petrofuel providers would reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in a variety of ways.
They can blend more biofuel with gasoline and diesel; they can buy low-carbon fuels and emissions credits from other producers; they can make refineries more efficient, and use lower carbon sources of energy to run refineries. To read the full text of "A Low Carbon Fuel Standard for California," Parts 1 and 2, click here.
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