Clean Cities' primary goal is to reduce petroleum use in the United States by 2.5 billion gallons per year by 2020.
To achieve this goal, Clean Cities employs three strategies:
•Replace petroleum with alternative and renewable fuels
•Reduce petroleum use through smarter driving practices, idle reduction, and fuel-efficient vehicles
•Eliminate petroleum consumption through the use of mass transit, trip-elimination measures, and congestion mitigation.
Clean Cities coalitions and stakeholders have saved 3 billion gallons of petroleum since the program's inception in 1993. Clean Cities projects have placed hundreds of thousands of alternative fuel vehicles on the road, developed thousands of alternative fueling stations, eliminated millions of hours of vehicle idling, and helped accelerate the entry of electric drive vehicles into the marketplace.
Since 1993, Clean Cities has funded more than 500 transportation projects nationwide through a competitive application process. Clean Cities has distributed $357 million in project awards, which have leveraged an additional $740 million in matching funds and in-kind contributions from other organizations in the public and private sectors.
