DOE's EIA Issues Statistics on Use of Alternative Fuels and Vehicles

The Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently issued its newest compilation of statistics on the use of alternative fuels and alternative-fuel vehicles. The alternative fuels used in 2002 were equivalent to nearly 170 billion gallons of gasoline, and the estimated alternative-fuel use for this year will be equal to more than 177 billion gallons of gasoline, according to the EIA.

Although, according to EIA estimates, approximately 4.5 million vehicles on U.S. roads in 2002 were capable of being fueled with alternative fuels (primarily E85, an ethanol-rich mixture of ethanol and gasoline), less than 500,000 were actually fueled with something other than gasoline blends or diesel fuel. The EIA projects that more than 547,000 U.S. vehicles will be fueled with alternative fuels this year.

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