Word: smog
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...required in all 2004 models, will be helped along by the EPA's strict new directive to refiners: Reduce the sulfur content in gasoline by 90 percent. This two-prong approach is critical, because cars using gas with lower sulfur levels produce less pollution - and make automakers' anti-smog adjustments more effective...
...technologies currently available on the world market. Americans could trade in their notoriously gas-swilling SUVs for sporty new 80-m.p.g. hybrid-electric cars. Better yet: hydrogen-powered fuel-cell cars, expected in showrooms by 2004. Since their only exhaust is water vapor, fuel-cell cars produce neither smog nor global warming...
Ever since Italian manufacturer Piagio introduced the iconic scooters to the U.S. in 1951, Vespas have had a devoted following. Supplies of the bikes dwindled after a 1981 California law prohibiting their smog-emitting engines led Piagio to stop exporting them to the U.S. in the mid-'80s. Yet demand has only grown, and lately devotees have transformed a cultish affection into an unprecedented vintage-scooter revival. Sales of old and restored Vespas and Lambrettas (no longer produced) have more than tripled since 1996, averaging $3,500 each...
...will be relieving to get back to the rarefied air of Cambridge. I've even been tempted by the smog to head into the Oxygen Bar in West Hollywood. The ivory tower isn't looking so bad compared to the entertainment industry...
Though the pacing is entirely different from Seinfeld's (and not quite right yet), It's Like, You Know... does rely on the same banter and wordplay, and it does it almost as well. Eventually, this series may resort to making earthquake jokes and doing bits about the smog, but until then, it is a very smart, knowing take on Los Angeles...