Detroit's Big Three auto makers hope to use their second meeting with President Bush in the past six months to stress the need for ramped-up alternative-fuel production, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

The focus on alternative fuels at Monday's White House meeting caters to an area where auto executives and the Bush administration share common ground, said the report.

General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and DaimlerChrysler AG have said they are committed to building what are known as flex-fuel vehicles that can run on both conventional and alternative fuels, a development Bush has repeatedly endorsed, the report said.

The Big Three won't have the same wide-ranging discussion they had during a November White House meeting with Bush, in which auto executives shared their concerns about ballooning health-care costs and competitive disadvantages related to foreign-exchange rates, said the report, quoting people familiar with the matter.

Instead, auto executives are expected to publicly support the president's energy plan, which calls for reducing gasoline consumption 20 percent in the next decade, in large part by boosting use of alternative fuels like ethanol, the corn-based additive.

The meeting's expected outcome has the potential to help ease strained relations, as the White House has been indifferent to some of the executives' previously raised concerns, the report said.