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This paper discusses the auto-oil process within the EU environmental policy framework. The author claims that the process is a central ingredient of the EU’s battle to control vehicle pollution. According to him, more behavioral change has taken place in the oil industry than in the car industry and especially in northern Europe. He estimates that it is likely that the EU’s institutional machinery and its various mechanisms caused these behavioral changes by bringing about the new knowledge that cleaner fuel was essential in order to attain the agreed goals between the EU and the car industry on reduced CO2 emissions.