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...Swallowed poison? A trip to the hospital may not help. Researchers find that many hospitals in the West--and maybe nationwide--don't stock antidotes to COMMON POISONS. More than 70%, in fact, can't treat an overdose of methanol, contained in antifreeze, which is often used in suicide attempts...
...will exceed the first stage of the state's stringent new clean-air code. By improving the catalytic converters in their subcompacts, Ford beat the clock on the tougher standards by four years. Research also continues on vehicles fueled by natural gas and flexible mixtures of up to 85% methanol and gasoline. As a result, car buyers are soon going to face choices much more complicated than merely deciding whether to buy their favorite sedan in green...
...vehicles is suddenly stronger than it has been in years. From automakers to energy companies, the race to develop a clean and dependable substitute for gasoline is in full gear. Chrysler recently unveiled a battery-powered prototype of its popular minivan. GM is experimenting with automobiles that run on methanol, a form of alcohol that comes from such sources as coal and wood. United Parcel Service recently tested delivery trucks that burn propane rather than gasoline. Mercedes-Benz has developed a prototype car that runs on hydrogen...
...also of his long attachment to conservation-minded "growth management" as mayor of San Diego from 1971 to 1983. On the campaign trail he has ridden a trolley to show his support for fume-free mass transit and visited a motor vehicle factory to admire the prototype of a methanol-powered bus. At a country club in Santa Barbara -- as Republican a setting as any to be found in Southern California -- he assured a matronly audience, "An environmental ethic will pervade the administration of Governor Wilson from Day One." Obviously, Wilson was trying to distance himself on the environment from...
...most oil companies have seemed more eager to denounce the alternative fuels than to develop new products. Mobil has run ads attacking methanol as polluting, expensive and more dangerous than gasoline if accidentally swallowed. Although the fuel produces far fewer smog ingredients than gasoline, it releases more formaldehyde, a suspected cause of cancer. Cars would get less mileage from methanol because it burns faster than gasoline. Yet Indianapolis 500 racers have used methanol for years because it boosts horsepower and is less flammable in accidents; U.S. automakers have developed experimental cars that run on both methanol and gasoline...