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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction for the cost of any qualified flexible fuel vehicle. Defines &quot;qualified flexible fuel vehicle&quot; as a motor vehicle that can use each of the following: (1) gasoline; (2) one or more fuels at least 85 percent of which is methanol, ethanol, any other alcohol, and/or ether; and (3) any combination of gasoline and one or more of such fuels. Terminates such deduction after 2010. </p>]]></text>
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    <title>To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a deduction for flexible fuel vehicles.</title>
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