ETHANOL USAGE.

SEC. 1508. ETHANOL USAGE. (a) Findings.— Congress finds that— (1) the United States is dependent for a large and growing share of its energy needs on the Middle East at a time when world petroleum reserves are declining; (2) the burning of gasoline causes pollution; (3) ethanol can be blended with gasoline to produce a cleaner source of fuel; (4) ethanol can be produced from grain, a renewable resource that is in considerable surplus in the United States; (5) the conversion of grain into ethanol would reduce farm program costs and grain surpluses; and (6) increasing the quantity of motor fuels that contain at least 10 percent ethanol from current levels to 50 percent by 1992 would create thousands of new jobs in ethanol production facilities. (b) Sense of Congress.— It is the sense of Congress that the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency should use authority provided under the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.) to require greater use of ethanol as motor fuel.