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...This is not an egalitarian society," he adds. "I mean, just look at which cars get ticketed. Policemen see little economy cars and know that their owners will be able to pay the parking ticket. But I mean, people look at the car and know it's a gas-guzzler and feel...
...more of these images will bring back the summers of their adolescence for many Americans who grew up in the '50s or early '60s. For others, however, one phrase says it all: the drive-in. They probably had their first date in a 1957 gas guzzler, with wraparound windows and sharklike tailfins, where they learned that sex is not just a three-letter word. But now, a mere 50 years after the first one opened in Camden, N.J., the drive-in is an endangered institution; in much of the U.S. it may not survive...
...guzzler's cup runneth over in a profusion and confusion of new brands...
...like people. A corollary belief apparently is that he wants to act like people. One day, en route to a Miami luncheon where he was to be honored, we walked through the garage of his condominium and into his large Lincoln automobile. Surveying the cramped space and the huge guzzler, I thought: He'll never be able to maneuver it out of here. He did, though. But the engine was sputtering, and as we hit a main thoroughfare, it quit on him altogether. I told him that if he would guide the car to the curb, I would push...
...governments will begin once more to neglect the energy issue and ignore pleas for continued conservation. True, gains have been made that will not easily be reversed. No one, for example, is about to rip insulation from walls or trade-in a fuel efficient compact for an oversized gas guzzler. But efforts to find alternative energy sources will diminish and conservation policies in general will take on less urgency...