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Bush and automakers discuss flex-fuel vehicles.

President Bush met this week with chief executive officers of Detroit's Big Three automakers General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Corp. and DaimlerChrysler and told them he wants a domestic auto industry that "is as vibrant and solid as possible."

"As these automobile manufacturers incorporate

new technologies that will enable us to power our cars in different ways, it will make it easier for me to be able to tell the American people we're using less foreign oil," Bush said.

The Big Three noted that they had in June agreed to double production of the number of flexible fuel vehicles that run on biofuels by 2010. GM CEO Rick Wagoner said they might be willing to increase that number to 50% of total production if the administration offered incentives by 2012.

Contact: General Motors, www.gm.com.

(EIN STAFF: 11/15)

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