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Ever since teeth were put into the Clean Air Act more than five years ago, Detroit's automakers have waged a continuing battle with Congress and Government regulators over the timetable and standards for cleaning up exhaust emissions from the nation's cars. They have won some delays: the deadline for meeting the highest federal antipollution standards, once scheduled for all cars by 1975, has been pushed back to 1978 and is likely to be extended further. Nonetheless, automakers are finding the regulatory climate hostile. That is especially true in California, where state authorities view smog control...
...longer-run problem in cleaning up auto exhaust is that with present equipment the carmakers cannot meet the tougher standards that will be required under present rules by 1978. Automakers get the vast majority of their cars past muster now by attaching catalytic converters that remove pollutants from exhaust after it leaves the engine but before it blows out of the tailpipe (see diagram). In order to get as much nitrogen oxide out of the exhaust as they must by 1978, however, the carmakers will have to resort to lower combustion temperatures, reduced compression ratios and other engine modifications. Those...
...automobile manufacturers must meet progressively stricter gasoline-mileage standards; by 1985 the average car must get 27.5 miles per gal., an improvement of more than 50% over the current average. Most U.S. automakers complain that meeting the requirement will require an unforeseen technological breakthrough, a relaxation of exhaust-emission standards and a massive switch by consumers to automobiles about the size of General Motors' tiny Chevette, which seats four passengers and gets 32 miles per gal. The automakers would prefer using higher prices at the pump, penalties for gas-guzzling autos or refunds to buyers of efficient cars...
...which says that police radar machines can't detect a smallish car if it's near a big truck. My friend finds trucks that are going fast, and follows them close begind for hundreds of miles. There are disadvantages to this close behind a truck, you get spewed by exhaust and can't see the road ahead, and for me it's too much of a price...
...seems to have settled on the automobile metaphor as the primary archetype of Jersey adolescence--after all, exhaust fumes probably account for his vocal grittiness. Songs like "Thunder Road" rumble, muffler-less, with pounding guitars and bass...