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Using ethanol instead of fossil fuels The use of ethanol as an alternative to fossil fuels could greatly reduce pollution. This fuel burns cleaner, is easily replenished, and comes right from American soil, making it less expensive for the consumer. U. S. consumers use more than 30 billion gallons of high performance, cleaner burning ethanol-blended gasoline each year. Ethanol increases oxygenate supplies, reducing the need for MTBE imports and helping to reduce consumer costs. Ethanol is a high-octane blending component used by many gasoline marketers -- helping to keep this important class of trade viable, and creating competition for the major oil companies. Since the petroleum refining industry is running at near capacity, the ethanol industry helps extend our petroleum supply. Thereby, ethanol is helping to moderate fuel costs to consumers by the partial excise tax exemption for ethanol and ETBE blends available to gasoline marketers. A General Accounting Office (GAO) study has shown that reduced farm program costs, and increased income tax revenues, offset the cost of the incentive. The economic activity, attributable to the ethanol industry, will generate $3.5 billion in additional income tax revenue over the next f