Alternative fuel choice ethanol requires more flexible fuel vehicles

WASHINGTON - President Bush's goal of making 7.5 billion gallons of ethanol a part of the nation's fuel supply by 2012 can be met only if more cars are able to use fuel that is 85 percent ethanol, witnesses told a Senate committee Tuesday.

Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., chairman of the subcommittee on energy, heard testimony from three panels of witnesses, including Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and representatives from the Department of Energy and renewable fuel, automobile and oil industries.