美國再生能源實驗室的最新報告指出，美國各地的潔淨都市聯盟在2006年減少使用約3億7500萬加侖的汽油。減少的使用量約相當於美國全國一天所消耗的汽油量，2006年減少的用量比2005年的2億5000萬加侖增加了50%。
潔淨都市聯盟希望在2020年減少32億加侖的汽油，超過原先所設定的7億加侖。
潔淨都市計劃在全國約有近90個聯盟團體，他們與政府和企業夥伴共同合作，藉由減少運輸的石油消耗量，來增加美國的經濟、環境和能源安全。
美國再生能源實驗室表示，2006年減少的汽油使用量中，71%是使用替代性能源，30%則使用壓縮天然氣，大部分用於載重汽車。
潔淨都市計劃是美國能源部能源效能和再生能源處「車輛科技計劃」的一部分，此計劃提出讓美國在興建公共建設時，儘量減少對進口石油的依賴，進而邁向能源自主和安全。
Clean Cities coalitions around the nation displaced the equivalent of 375 million gallons of gasoline in 2006, according to a new report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NREL.
That reduction is roughly equivalent to the amount of gasoline consumed across the United States in one day.
The amount of gasoline displaced in 2006 was 50 percent more than the 250 million gallons displaced in 2005.
Clean Cities coalitions are on track to reach 3.2 billion gallons of gasoline displaced in 2020, exceeding their established goal by 700 million gallons.
Through its almost 90 coalitions, Clean Cities works with government and industry partners to increase the nation's economic, environmental and energy security by reducing petroleum consumption in the transportation sector.
Seventy-one percent of the 2006 gasoline displacement came from the use of alternative fuels, NREL says. Thirty percent of that was from the use of compressed natural gas, mostly in heavy-duty vehicles.
Clean Cities is part of the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Vehicle Technologies Program. The program addresses the challenge of moving the United States away from the infrastructure and practices that contribute to dependence on imported petroleum and toward energy independence and security.
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