The most important steps we can take to cut our oil dependence are to raise fuel efficiency standards and to meet them using the technologies described in the preceding pages. But other strategies will take us even further toward reducing our oil dependence. NRDC is working to forward these solutions, and will publicize new developments and action opportunities as they arise.

• Expand the use of renewable, non-petroleum fuels, such as ethanol made from specially grown plants or crop wastes, by steadily increasing requirements for "renewable content" in gasoline.
  
  
• Put hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles onto the road using incentives and requirements to ramp up production to 100,000 vehicles by 2010 and 2.5 million by 2020. These vehicles will use one-third the energy of today's cars (none of it from oil) and produce near-zero harmful emissions.
  
  
• Encourage "smart growth" instead of suburban sprawl, to increase Americans' transportation choices and make communities more livable with less driving.
  
  

For more detail on NRDC's plan to end our reliance on oil, see Dangerous Addiction

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