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- <title>
- May 22, 1989: Try Convertibles
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- May 22, 1989 Politics, Panama-Style
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- ENVIRONMENT, Page 92
- Try Convertibles
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- <p>Vermont plans to ban auto air conditioners that use CFCs
- </p>
- <p> The world's nations have declared their aim of phasing out
- production of ozone-destroying CFCs by the end of the century.
- But that is not good enough for the environment-conscious
- citizens of Vermont. Governor Madeleine Kunin will soon sign
- state legislation designed to curb the chemicals more swiftly.
- Starting in 1993, selling new cars that use CFCs in air
- conditioners will be illegal in Vermont.
- </p>
- <p> That might appear to be an easy step for a northern state
- where the average July temperature is only 68 degrees F, but
- Vermont hopes its action will send a message to the rest of the
- U.S. It will certainly send a disturbing message to Detroit,
- since more than 75% of cars sold have air conditioners, and all
- those use CFCs. While automakers have no quarrel with the need
- to find substitute coolants, they doubt they can meet Vermont's
- timetable.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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