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From: tjsmedley@watmum.UUCP (Trevor J. Smedley)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Speed limits in other countries
Message-ID: <284@watmum.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 6-Oct-85 16:14:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: watmum.284
Posted: Sun Oct  6 16:14:10 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 7-Oct-85 04:08:25 EDT
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Reply-To: tjsmedley@watmum.UUCP (Trevor J. Smedley)
Followup-To: Speed limits in other countries
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <12082@rochester.UUCP> goddard@rochester.UUCP (Nigel Goddard) writes:
>
>I've been horrified at the fuel consumption figures here.  In
>Europe 35-45 mpg is common.  It's not the speed so much as car design.

...and pollution controls (such as catalytic converters). The European 
cars don't have 'em! 

I, personally, would rather put up with the fuel consumption figures
here than the air pollution there. The cars really smell bad! And they
don't exactly help the environment either.