Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nearest village is six miles away; the closest supermarket is 28. My car is not a toy-it is a life support. But I would grimace and agree to the proposed gasoline tax if all revenue were used solely for the development of new sources of energy. But when the breeder-reactor program is scrapped, when a hydroelectric dam cannot be built in order to preserve the lousewort, the crisis seems just another means of taxing and depleting our greatest natural resource, the citizens...
...which I and my seven cousins and all our friends fled as soon as we were able; where once my father's friend won a golden Cadillac at an American Legion Fourth of July carnival and moved to a better part of town to keep up with his car. To see a page devoted to Hinsdale in TIME...
...car of the future will not be able to vroom away from a stop light with today's panache. Most GM cars now accelerate from a dead stop to 60 m.p.h. in 11 to 14 seconds; the report implies that by 1985 most will take 15 seconds or more. GM fears that the loss in performance, small though it may seem, will discourage buyers...
...models (TIME, Sept. 13) and figures that retooling for the more drastic changes needed by 1985 will cost several times that. The expense, no doubt, will be passed on to buyers, raising another question: will they accept higher prices for shorter, lighter, less powerful, slower-starting cars? One possible clue is the renewed popularity of imported cars, which took 20% of the U.S. market in April. Foreign car makers are far ahead of Detroit in the technology of fuel saving and weight reduction. For example, front-wheel-drive systems already are standard equipment on many Volkswagen, Audi, Fiat and Honda...
...case, one much talked of method of saving fuel, the development of the electric car, is not even mentioned in the GM study. Its deficiencies are familiar to Detroit, but they were sarcastically highlighted last week by Kansas Republican Senator Robert Dole, who jokingly claims to have got a look at one of Energy Chief James Schlesinger's secret projects. Said Dole: "It's an electric car that will take you from Washington to Los Angeles on $4.12 worth of electricity-but the extension cord costs...