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...pool of young talent diminishes. Even now, older people are more apt to vote than younger people, and as they increase in number they will also become a greater political force. "There will be a tendency for the aging portion of the population to become more powerful," says Rand Corp.'s Dennis Detray. "But there is nothing inherently wrong with that. Do the young have a right to dictate...
...page report, Rand concludes that the best way to clean up the air is to clean up the internal combustion engine. That happens to be Detroit's problem; under the clean air law, the automakers have until 1977 to produce a virtually pollution-free car. If state regulations requiring that old cars be fitted with effective antipollution devices are enforced, Rand's researchers suggest, then Los Angeles-area authorities need only take four relatively painless steps...
...this, says Rand, and the number of vehicle-miles traveled daily in Los Angeles will drop 30% by 1977. That reduction, together with Detroit's new emission-control equipment, will cut the volume of air pollutants to 500 tons per day. The hitch is, the report concedes, that Los Angeles still would not meet the air-quality standards...
...would building the proposed mass-transit system accomplish much; at best, says Rand, going that route would yield "insignificant further improvements in air quality...
...provocative Rand study is based on a shaky hypothesis-that the automakers can create effective antipollution devices and that motorists will maintain them. Doubting Thomas Bradley, mayor of Los Angeles, prefers to back the rapid-transit proposal. "He does not feel he can rely solely on Detroit to clean up our air," says an aide. The net result of the study, besides pointing out that the clean air act's standards may be unrealistically strict, is to prove again to the besieged and besmogged voters of Los Angeles that there are no easy environmental answers...