of fuel and the aggregate amount of alternative fuel 
used to operate all dual fuel automobiles during the 
most recent 12-month period. 
‘‘(3) DETERMINATION OF ALTERNATIVE FUEL 
USE FACTOR.—The Administrator shall determine, 
by regulation, the alternative fuel use factor for dual 
fueled automobiles, on an energy equivalent basis, by 
calculating the ratio that the amount of alternative 
fuel used by each model bears to the total amount 
of fuel used by such model.’’. 
(b) APPLICABILITY OF EXISTING STANDARD.—The 
amendments made by this section shall not affect the ap-
plication of section 32901 of title 49, United States Code, 
to automobiles manufactured before model year 2007. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall take effect on January 1, 2007. 
SEC. 202. FLEXIBLE FUEL VEHICLE STANDARDS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ALTERNATIVE FUEL; ALTERNATIVE FUELED 
AUTOMOBILE; 
AUTOMOBILE.—The terms ‘‘alter-
native fuel’’, ‘‘alternative fueled automobile’’, and 
‘‘automobile’’ have the meanings given such terms in 
section 32901 of title 49, United States Code. 
(2) FLEXIBLE
FUEL
VEHICLES.—The term 
‘‘flexible fuel vehicle’’ means a light duty motor vehi-
cle warranted by the manufacturer to operate using 
gasoline and 1 or more alternative fuels, including 
ethanol and methanol in blends up to 85 percent al-
ternative fuel by volume. 
(b) INCREASING PERCENTAGE
OF ALTERNATIVE 
FUELED
AUTOMOBILES
OR
FLEXIBLE
FUEL
VEHI-
CLES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Of the new automobiles sold 
by a manufacturer in the United States— 
(A) not less than 10 percent manufactured 
by that manufacturer for model year 2009 shall 
be alternative fueled automobiles or flexible fuel 
vehicles; 
(B) not less than 20 percent manufactured 
by that manufacturer for model year 2010 shall 
be alternative fueled automobiles or flexible fuel 
vehicles; 
(C) not less than 35 percent manufactured 
by that manufacturer for model year 2011 shall 
be alternative fueled automobiles or flexible fuel 
vehicles; and 
(D) not less than 50 percent manufactured 
by that manufacturer for model year 2012, and 
each year thereafter, shall be alternative fueled 
automobiles or flexible fuel vehicles.
(2) RULEMAKING.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
Transportation shall issue regulations to carry out 
this subsection. 
(c) ALTERNATIVE FUEL RETAIL OUTLETS.— 
(1) REQUIREMENT.—Beginning in the first 
year in which 10 percent or more of the registered 
vehicles in a county are capable of using an alter-
native fuel, each retail motor fuel outlet in that 
county with 10 or more vehicle fuel pumps shall 
offer such alternative fuel at not less than 10 per-
cent of such pumps. 
(2) CREDITS.—A retail motor fuel outlet shall 
be in compliance with the requirement under para-
graph (1) if a sufficient number of credits have been 
purchased for it from another retail motor fuel out-
let that operates more than the minimum required 
number of alternative fuel pumps, and is within 20 
miles of the purchasing retail motor fuel outlet. 
(3) PROJECTIONS.—Not later than July 1st of 
each year, the Secretary of Energy shall— 
(A) identify the counties in which at least 
10 percent of the registered vehicles are ex-
pected to be capable of using a designated alter-