Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...estimate it will need over the next ten years to expand capacity, clean up pollution and develop new technology. Electric utilities usually raise most of their money in the bond market, but so far this year 28 utilities have postponed bond sales or changed the terms. Consumers Power Co., Detroit Edison Co. and other utilities have canceled plans to build nuclear power plants because they could not borrow the money at acceptable cost...
...page report, Rand concludes that the best way to clean up the air is to clean up the internal combustion engine. That happens to be Detroit's problem; under the clean air law, the automakers have until 1977 to produce a virtually pollution-free car. If state regulations requiring that old cars be fitted with effective antipollution devices are enforced, Rand's researchers suggest, then Los Angeles-area authorities need only take four relatively painless steps...
...this, says Rand, and the number of vehicle-miles traveled daily in Los Angeles will drop 30% by 1977. That reduction, together with Detroit's new emission-control equipment, will cut the volume of air pollutants to 500 tons per day. The hitch is, the report concedes, that Los Angeles still would not meet the air-quality standards...
...provocative Rand study is based on a shaky hypothesis-that the automakers can create effective antipollution devices and that motorists will maintain them. Doubting Thomas Bradley, mayor of Los Angeles, prefers to back the rapid-transit proposal. "He does not feel he can rely solely on Detroit to clean up our air," says an aide. The net result of the study, besides pointing out that the clean air act's standards may be unrealistically strict, is to prove again to the besieged and besmogged voters of Los Angeles that there are no easy environmental answers...
...Detroit seeks fuel-saving, less-polluting alternatives to the modern auto engine, Stirling's machine has taken on new life. The Ford Motor Co. plans to test experimental models as possible competitors for the Wankel rotary engine, which is already standard equipment on Japanese-produced Mazdas and will be offered as an option on the General Motors Vega next year...