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From: jeremy@perf2.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon)
Newsgroups: ba.transportation,ca.environment,sci.electronics
Subject: Fuel efficiency
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Date: 23 Sep 90 21:10:41 GMT
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In article <38776@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, cameron@janus.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Williamson) writes:
>
> What we've seen in the last 10 years is that, as a result of lower
> fuel prices, fuel efficiency has been neglected so that cars sold today
> have an average efficiency lower than they did earlier in the 80's.
> Greater fuel consumption and higher pollution levels may have resulted
> from this lowering of the average standard.
> 

This is not true.  The CAFE for the last three years has hovered around
27, the highest since such records have been kept.  Also, pollution
standards are in grams per mile, not parts per million, so that the
average Lincoln Town Car puts out no more of the nasty pollutants
than a Honda Civic.