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...Ruckelshaus said he had strong support from President Nixon to enforce sternly all anti-pollution laws. Ruckelshaus noted that one way to reduce emissions -and ease the energy shortage-would be to boost substantially the current 4? per gallon federal excise tax on gas. Along with cutting pollutants, automen may also face the problem of making engines that drink much less fuel...
...first quarter of next year, the makers are scheduling an output of 2.6 million cars, 16% more than in the hot first quarter of 1972 and about equal to the alltime quarterly high set in the last three months of 1965. With that kind of start, automen are predicting yet another sales record of 11 million or more cars for all 1973, if-and it is a big if-the United Auto Workers do not stage a long strike against one of the Big Three when contracts expire next fall...
...Automen grumbled that the Price Commission had led them to believe that their shaved-down price requests would be approved, and they reacted angrily to the rejection. "We are astounded by this arbitrary action of the commission," said Henry Ford II. Though G.M.'s second-quarter profits climbed 28% over the same period last year and Ford's zoomed 43%, both automobile companies maintain that the price hikes would not further fatten profits but only offset cost increases forced on them by federal...
...problems with the Wankel. Rotary engines now available, including the Mazda, says Cole, are "equivalent to a 1930s' piston engine in development. The comparison between that and what we will see in a couple of years will be quite impressive." The Wankel seems finally to be doing what automen long thought impossible: ending Detroit's long love affair with the standard engine, or at least making an interesting triangle...
...product without making a mistake that inconveniences half a million customers, who can? In a recent Harris Poll, only 30% of the people interviewed believed that the quality of American products had improved in the past year, down from 37% last year. Probably the time has come for the automen and other manufacturers to slow their production lines and spend more time and money on checking out quality instead of concentrating on quantity...