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- From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: Running out of oil.
- In-Reply-To: ems@michael.apple.com's message of Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:22:07 GMT
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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- Date: 30 Jul 92 21:16:19
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- In article <1992Jul31.002207.3029@michael.apple.com> ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith) writes:
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- In article <JMC.92Jul30122015@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >I wonder if the State of California program to use methanol fueled
- >vehicles isn't just more lawyers' technology (perhaps politicians'
- >technology is better in this case), a politically popular idea
- >that won't cost too much if done on a small enough scale.
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- In a way I suppose it is. It is being driven by the Smog Laws ...
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- L.A. is so far out of spec, and Ca. laws are scheduling such tight
- requirments over such a short time span, that radical things MUST be done.
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- Take the Zero Emmisions Vehicles requirments for example. Specific
- numbers of ZEV's that each car manufacturer must sell to do any business
- in the state ...
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- Lawyers Delight. Politicians Dream. I'd rail against it, if it
- wasn't promoting the cleaner air that I'd rather breath and the
- alternative fuel vehicles that I'd like to play with ...
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- So methanol is coming in as a way to cut smog, no matter the cost
- today, in preparation for a cleaner tomorrow ... The State is
- spending the money to set up the basic government market in the
- expectation that this will build enough infrastructure for the
- average fleet owner and/or private citizen to feel comfortable
- buying a flex fuel vehicle.
-
- --
-
- E. Michael Smith ems@apple.COM
-
- 'Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has
- genius, power and magic in it.' - Goethe
-
- I am not responsible nor is anyone else. Everything is disclaimed.
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- I don't know about L.A., but around Palo Alto, it seems that the
- air is good enough. Maybe the Air Resources Board is running
- away with itself.
- --
- John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
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- He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
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