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...Utopia or nightmare? The plan shocked state governments and businessmen alike. In announcing a sweeping new series of antipollution regulations last week, the Environmental Protection Agency outlined a fundamental, even traumatic change in an American culture that has grown deeply -and as the EPA believes, dangerously -dependent upon the automobile...
...would be rationed in some areas. Parking in major cities would be severely curtailed. New exhaust-control devices, although technically far from perfect, would be required on old as well as new cars. Most startlingly, the EPA proposals suggested that by 1977, limits on gasoline sales could force most automobiles off the streets of Los Angeles, a city almost totally dependent upon the internal combustion engine. The thrust of the proposed new controls would be to make it increasingly difficult for Americans to add their cars' pollution to the gases that already hover over the nation's major...
Among the EPA proposals...
...other cities cited by the EPA were Springfield, Mass.; Indianapolis; Camden and Trenton, N.J.; Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo; El Paso, Austin and Waco, Corpus Christi, Houston-Galveston, San Antonio and Dallas-Fort Worth. These areas, although somewhat cleaner, would be subject to similar measures...
...moving so boldly, EPA was essentially saying that the states themselves had not moved boldly enough...