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...table is a White House proposal that would require automakers to start selling cars that run on gasoline substitutes by 1995. Car companies would be told to produce 500,000 such vehicles the first year and 1 million units a year beginning in 1997. Among possible substitutes: methanol, a high-octane alcohol derived from wood; ethanol, or "gasohol," a blend of gasoline and grain alcohol; and compressed natural...
...debut, the California Air Resources Board unanimously approved a sweeping 20-year plan to clean up Southern California's atmosphere. President Bush put additional pressure on oil companies in June, when he unveiled an antipollution proposal that included a switch to cleaner automotive fuels, including natural gas and methanol, in smog-choked parts of the country...
...tightening of emissions standards for hydrocarbons from automobile tail pipes, a 75% cut in cancer-causing toxic chemicals poured into the atmosphere over an unspecified period, and in its most visionary -- perhaps pie-in-the-sky -- aspect, a fleet of cars that run on fuels cleaner than gasoline (probably methanol, though ethanol or compressed natural gas could also be used). Some 500,000 such cars would be on the road by 1995, 750,000 the following year, a million a year from 1997 through...
...tail- | pipe emissions; the controls he did propose nationally for gasoline-driven cars are less stringent than those that California has already enacted. Use of the new fuels would require an expensive redesign. For example, because a car can travel only about half as far on a gallon of methanol as on a gallon of gas, automakers would have to build cars with bigger fuel tanks. Worse, motorists would probably not want to buy methanol cars until the fuel was widely available, and gas stations would probably not install methanol pumps until large numbers of cars using that fuel were...
...install the best antismog equipment available. But one of the plan's primary objectives is to break the city's addiction to the internal-combustion engine. First, it imposes stricter emission standards and forces employers to encourage car pooling. Then it calls for conversion of most vehicles to methanol and other cleaner burning fuels. Finally, in a Buck Rogers phase that assumes rapid advances in fuel-cell technology, it calls for a massive switch to cars, buses and trucks powered by electricity...