... propane and natural gas have been included
Cost
of
FuelIYear
gasoline
21,280 gallons 28.8¢ (avg.)
year
x gallon =
6130/year
propane
25, 500 gallons 18 .5 - $4720
year
x gallon -
/year
natural gas
2,128,000 ... for the carburetor float bowl
and
other chambers
are either eliminated, made internal (so the vapors are consumed by the
engine), or manifolded
to
a vapor storage sys...
... against the economic and
social costs
of
these measures.
The Clean Air
Act
of
1970
(as amended) appears to give the Administrator
of
the
EPA
discretionary authority to approve such
an
approach by a ... available,
and
the figure of
8%
is
regarded by the Pace Company as a reasonable initial target
that
would
not
place too great a strain
on
refineries
and
other sources (mai...
... aerosols
may
amount
to as much as 25%
of
the total in the atmosphere,
on
the basis
of
a yearly average.
On
particularly "smoggy" days these chemically-produced
aerosols may
amount
to 75% of the ... 10,
p.
43.
6The
Pace
Report,
page
84.
'1972 LP-Gas RefuelingDirectory, Woodall's National LP-Gas Association.
66
EQL Strategy
#1
makes a modest contribution...
... be
not
to
recognize any; for
example, as in the case
of
Britain to make propane (or its equivalent) manda-
tory for all taxi cabs in London.
Just
as with the income
tax
the general
argument against providing ... loopholes
is
that
there
is
no
natural stopping
place.
On
the other hand, it also must be recognized
that
politicians some-
times aren't willing
to
be as harsh as th...
... with
an
estimate
of
average mileage
to
compute the total mass
emissions which are to be taxed. There are two ways
of
collecting such a
tax: one
is
to
impose the
tax
as
an
excise or sales tax, and ... be
an
incentive
to
operate a well-tuned car even if the
tax
did
not
vary with actual miles driven.
If
the motorist
is
to
pay the tax, however, there
is
a simple way
to...
... IN
OXIDANT
AIR
QUALITY
FOR THE
SOUTH COAST
AIR
BASIN (0.20
ppm)
PRESENT
StRATEGY
(1971)
/
@)m
1970
YEAR
139
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80
Figure 12
SUPPLY
AND
DEMAND OF NATURAL GAS
IN
AUGUST
19 75
FOR SOUTHERN
CAliFORNIA
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1969
19 75
Actual
Low
High
Use
Projection
Projection
142
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13
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AND
DEMAND
A...
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ABOUT
THE
AUTHORS
LESTER
LEES,
director
of
the
Environmental
Quality
Laboratory,
is
professor
of
aeronautics
and
environ-
mental
engineering
at
Caltech.
He
is
the
author
of
numerous
papers
on
problems
of
high
speed
flight,
especially
entry
of
miss...
... should
be
reduced
to
25
days per year (an additional re-
duction
of
50 % and
an
overall reduction
of
90%).23
The Clean Air Act appears
to
give the Administrator
of
the
EPA
discretion-
ary authority
to
approve
an
alternative ... State
on
the nature
and
amounts
of
emissions from such stationary sources; also
authority for the State to make such
data
available to the publ...
... Administrator
of
the
EPA
(Table
2).
These air quality standards must
be
attained within three years
of
the date
of
approval
of
such plan
or
any revision thereof.
13
The Administrator
of
the
EPA
may, ... tech-
nical measures to which a dollar value can be attached. That's
about
$100 a
head for everyone in the
South
Coast
Air Basin, or, looked
at
another
way,
it's less...
... California, for example, such
an
approach
is
applicable
not
only
to
the
South
Coast Air Basin, but also
to
the
San
Diego
County
Air Basin, the Sac-
ramento Valley Air Basin,
and
the
San
Francisco Bay ... L .A. "
we
mean the
Downtown L .A Burbank-Pasadena Area.
6
An
average
of
the
maximum
mid-
day oxidant levels measured
at
the
APCD
stations in these three locations
was...