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...artist-in-society: should he continue to design cars or should he flee to California and make sculptures out of automobile parts? And poor emerson Vale--consumer crusader and author of "The American Car: Unsure in Any Need"--why, the man clearly has a fixation of seat belts and exhaust pipes...
Polluting the skies above Soldier's Soldier's Field with airplane exhaust, Zero Population Growth ran a flying warning against the old biblical "be fruitful and multiply...
...cheaper grades of petrol, which the sun's rays convert into highly toxic gases. Compounding the ecological tragedy still further, the number of private cars in Tokyo has doubled within the past three years, and the Japanese car manufacturers, who equip automobiles exported to the U.S. with exhaust-control devices, follow no such restraints in their own domestic market...
Piccard estimated that what he calls Homo technicus releases between 5,000,000 and 10,000,000 tons of polluting petroleum products every year to float on the seas' sensitive surface. Up to 1.8 million tons come from automobile exhaust emissions which rise into the atmosphere and eventually precipitate onto the ocean surface. Tankers spill another million. The world's polluted rivers spew out the rest...
This year Granatelli's corporate glory has vanished in a cloud of blue exhaust smoke. An article in last July's Consumer Reports criticized STP Oil Treatment, warned that new-car warranties might not cover damage from an overdose of the additive and sent STP stock tumbling from its high of 58. In one frenzied trading day last week, the stock fell from 331 to 22. It finished the week at 181. Reason: Granatelli announced that third-quarter earnings had fallen 69% below last year's level...