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Bumper Battle. The industry's credibility has not always been high when it comes to complaints about environmental controls. For example, Detroit long opposed use of the emission-reducing catalytic converter, a device fixed to the exhaust pipe underneath the car. These converters are installed in the 1975 models, and GM, for one, praises their virtues. With the converter, engines can be tuned up to give top fuel efficiency instead of being wastefully geared down to reduce emissions, as they had been for several years. The result, according to tests made by the Environmental Protection Agency: the new cars...
...added cost at $250 to $350.) In addition, GM's Murphy contends, "If you set emission standards higher, there's got to be a sacrifice of fuel economy." The EPA disagrees. Astonishingly, a study it released last week argues that there "is no inherent relationship between exhaust-emissions standards and fuel economy." The best guess now is that Congress will push back the 1977 regulations by a year or two on economic grounds but is extremely unlikely to grant the automakers the five-year reprieve that they want...
...they fail to comply, however, the White House is expected to ask Congress to enact a law requiring the minimum mileage. In return for their cooperation, the Administration will ask Congress to grant the auto companies an extension of the deadline, from 1977 to 1981, for further purification of exhaust emissions?perhaps an overgenerous amendment to the Clean Air Act. But the companies argue that they cannot improve mileage without a relaxation of emission standards. Savings by 1977: 114,000 bbl. a day. By 1985: 1.2 million...
...them. With health and police costs added, it is no wonder that city halls are greatly concerned about fostering greater owner concern and responsibility. In this seemingly throwaway society, pets must not continue to be a temporary toy and whim that is cast out on the streets when people exhaust the initial novelty...
...Ironically we might be adopting a hazardous technology in order to prevent exhaust emissions which by themselves may not be as harmful," Kain said...