The Big Three aren't so big anymore. And who really knows where they will end up. However, there is something that might help pump some life into Detroit's auto industry - alternative fuel production and the cars that use it.
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Michigan's difference could be its battered auto industry, which is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop vehicles that run on biofuels, electricity and hydrogen.
The sense of urgency has picked up considerably with gas prices topping $4 a gallon, new federal regulations that will boost fuel-economy standards for cars and trucks to 35 miles per gallon by 2020, and worries about emissions contributing to climate change.
Deriving energy from wind, sun and biofuels such as ethanol -- and producing the vehicles it runs on -- could become an industry rivaling the Internet-driven boom of the 1990s, some say.
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