White House officials are working on it

On the campaign trail, Barack Obama said he would lead by example when it comes to environmental stewardship.
 
Case in point: Obama promised that the government would use more flex-fuel cars under his administration.
 
We've already tackled similar promises. For example, Obama promised that by 2012, half of all cars purchased by the federal government would be plug-in hybrids or all-electric vehicles. We rated this promise In the Works because the stimulus bill included $300 million to buy more "high efficiency motor vehicles" for the federal fleet. That includes hybrids, hybrid plug-ins and all-electric cars.
 
Additionally, we looked at Obama's promise to mandate flexible fuel vehicles by 2012, which we also rated In the Works because legislation pending in Congress would advance Obama's goal.
 
And then there was Obama's promise to require a plug-in hybrid fleet at the White House within a year of taking office, which has Stalled largely because the technology for plug-in hybrids hasn't developed enough to be a safe and cost-effective method of transporting the president.
 
The White House told us it's working on Obama's promise to require more flex-fuel cars -- vehicles that can run on regular gasoline or a blend of up to 85 percent ethanol -- in the federal government. We were pointed to a statement the White House made on the plug-in hybrid promise. Here's what it said:
 
"We are currently in the process of updating the fleet and we"re making every effort to make as much of the fleet as green as possible," a White House official told PolitiFact. "The Environmental Protection Agency has been involved in these conversations."
 
So, the bottom line is that the administration is working on updating its fleet at the White House and within the federal government. We'll move this promise to In the Works as a result.