This bill seeks to ensure transparent and competitive transportation fuel markets, thereby protecting consumers from unwarranted price increases. It achieves this by amending the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to broaden the scope of market manipulation and false information prohibitions from just gasoline and petroleum distillates to include all transportation fuels , such as jet fuel, aviation gasoline, and biofuels. The bill also significantly increases the maximum civil penalty for such violations from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000 . A key provision is the establishment of a Transportation Fuel Monitoring and Enforcement Unit within the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). This unit's primary responsibility is to continuously collect, monitor, and analyze crude oil and transportation fuel market data to identify and investigate market manipulation, false reporting, or anti-competitive behaviors. It will also gather evidence for enforcement actions and obtain data-sharing agreements with other federal agencies like the Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Furthermore, the bill mandates the EIA to conduct comprehensive surveys of energy companies to collect detailed and timely information on U.S. crude oil and transportation fuel markets. This data will cover imports, exports, refining, storage, transportation, and buying/selling activities, including market price data. The EIA is required to make analyses of this data publicly available, with sufficient geographical specificity, while ensuring the protection of confidential information.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Energy
Transportation Fuel Market Transparency Act
USA119th CongressS-4471| Senate
| Updated: 4/30/2026
This bill seeks to ensure transparent and competitive transportation fuel markets, thereby protecting consumers from unwarranted price increases. It achieves this by amending the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to broaden the scope of market manipulation and false information prohibitions from just gasoline and petroleum distillates to include all transportation fuels , such as jet fuel, aviation gasoline, and biofuels. The bill also significantly increases the maximum civil penalty for such violations from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000 . A key provision is the establishment of a Transportation Fuel Monitoring and Enforcement Unit within the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). This unit's primary responsibility is to continuously collect, monitor, and analyze crude oil and transportation fuel market data to identify and investigate market manipulation, false reporting, or anti-competitive behaviors. It will also gather evidence for enforcement actions and obtain data-sharing agreements with other federal agencies like the Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Furthermore, the bill mandates the EIA to conduct comprehensive surveys of energy companies to collect detailed and timely information on U.S. crude oil and transportation fuel markets. This data will cover imports, exports, refining, storage, transportation, and buying/selling activities, including market price data. The EIA is required to make analyses of this data publicly available, with sufficient geographical specificity, while ensuring the protection of confidential information.