Word: aaas
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...CLASH with General Motors, Ralph Nader was only half jokingly dubbed "crusader." The automobile is not a commodity; it is the sacrament of a religion. It is in this context that groups such as the AAA argue against the Center for Auto Safety with what approaches religious fervor...
Conspiracy theories are a natural offshoot of such an approach. If there is a problem, it must be caused deliberately by a malicious enemy. To Nader, auto manufacturers conspire to produce unsafe cars; to Bernard Nossiter, they conspire to plan obsolescence; to the AAA, consumerists conspire to deprive motorists the joy of open road travel; to General Motors, a conspiracy of youth and the underprivileged are responsible for the famous Lords town difficulties. Finally a book has been written about the automakers which transcends conspiracy. Emma Roths child's history of the American automobile industry is levelheaded and objective...
...chiefs say that refining costs make it so). The American Automobile Association, traditionally supersensitive to anything that could inconvenience motorists, worries that owners of 1975 cars in many rural areas will have to drive long distances before coming across a station big enough to be selling unleaded gas. AAA officials also fear that many stations that do carry the new fuel will not get the small nozzles required to dispense it in time: only three companies are making the nozzles, and one has been struck recently...