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Contact Mr. Frank Burcham, Coordinator of the Land of Enchantment Clean Cities Coalition at loecleancities@comcast.net

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Use of Alternative Fuels

The City of Las Cruces and the Land of Enchantment Clean Cities Coalition have partnered to promote and educate the public on the use of alternative fuels in the transportation.

National Clean Cities Program

Created in 1993 by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the mission of the National Clean Cities Program is to advance the economic, environmental, and energy security of the United States by supporting local decisions to adopt practices that contribute to reduced petroleum consumption in the transportation sector.
Clean Cities carries out this mission through a network of more than 90 volunteer, community-based coalitions, which develop public/private partnerships to promote the use of alternative fuels and vehicles, expand the use of fuel blends, encourage the use of fuel economy practices, increase the acquisition of hybrid vehicles by fleets and consumers, and advance the use of idle reduction technologies in heavy-duty vehicles.
In 1994, the Land of Enchantment Clean Cities Coalition became the 11th DOE designated Clean City Coalition.  Its members total more than 60 stakeholders presently as it continues to expand its efforts state-wide.  The City of Las Cruces and the Land of Enchantment Clean Cities Coalition are working together in these efforts.
Today, National Clean Cities stakeholders are currently displacing 240M gasoline gallon equivalents (gge) per year, and the Clean Cities goal is to displace 2.5 billion gallons of petroleum per year by 2020. That is the equivalent of the annual gasoline consumption of 5 million cars or taking one supertanker off the high seas every eight days.
Alternative fuels are the cornerstone of Clean Cities, but in 2004 the program expanded its focus to:

• Increase the use of fuel blends (diesel/biodiesel, ethanol/gasoline, and compressed natural gas (CNG)/hydrogen),
• Accelerate sales of hybrid vehicles,
• Promote informed consumer choice on fuel economy, and
• Encourage the use of idle reduction technologies for heavy-duty trucks and other vehicles.

These four additions to the Clean Cities portfolio will help the program realize its mission and meet the program's goals of displacing 2.5 billion gallons of petroleum in the transportation sector by 2020.
Clean Cities is part of the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's FreedomCAR & Vehicle Technologies Program (http://www.eere.energy.gov/cleancities/index.html).