[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 34, Number 22 (Monday, June 1, 1998)]
[Page 1000]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Proclamation 7101--National Alternative Fuels Week, 1998

May 29, 1998

By the President of the United States

of America

A Proclamation

    In today's robust and growing economy, the United States faces major 
challenges in meeting the ever-increasing demand for transportation 
goods and services while minimizing the adverse impact on our energy 
resources, environment, and future prosperity.
    Today's American transportation system remains enormously dependent 
on oil. Highway transportation alone accounts for more than half of our 
Nation's oil demand, and the number of vehicles and miles driven on our 
roads is steadily increasing. Transportation is the second largest 
contributor to U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and will likely be the most 
significant contributor by the year 2000.
    Fortunately, vehicles that are powered by alternatives to 
conventional gasoline and diesel fuels are already on the market, and 
domestically produced, renewable alternative fuels are readily available 
to American consumers. These alternative fuels--such as ethanol, 
methanol, natural gas, propane, electricity, and biodiesel--can make 
significant contributions to our energy security and environmental 
quality. By increasing the use of alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs), we 
can reduce our demand for imported oil, create new products, jobs, and 
businesses, and improve air quality by dramatically reducing carbon 
dioxide emissions as well as the hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, and 
particulate matter that are such major contributors to urban air 
pollution.
    More than 350,000 AFVs are already on the road in the 60 communities 
participating in the Department of Energy's Clean Cities Program. This 
program is fostering the development of AFV markets in a network of 
cities across the country through partnerships among fuel suppliers, 
vehicle fleet operators, Federal, State, and local governments, and 
private sector organizations. Through the efforts of program 
participants, we are moving closer to our goal of building a 
transportation system for our Nation that meets the energy, economic, 
and environmental needs of Americans today and of generations yet to 
come.
    Now, Therefore, I, William J. Clinton, President of the United 
States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the 
Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim May 31 
through June 6, 1998, as National Alternative Fuels Week. I call upon 
all Americans to observe this week with appropriate programs, 
ceremonies, and activities.
    In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-ninth 
day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-eight, 
and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred 
and twenty-second.
                                            William J. Clinton

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., June 2, 1998]

Note: This proclamation will be published in the Federal Register on 
June 3.