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Show Switching To Regular The much higher price of unleaded gasoline at filling stations across the nation has encouraged the growing practice of fuel switching. The Environmental Protection Protec-tion Agency is increasingly concerned. IN MOST recently-built automobiles, au-tomobiles, tanks are equipped with filler pipes which accommodate ac-commodate only unleaded gas pump nozzles smaller than leaded gasoline tank nozzles. But many owners are removing remov-ing built-in obstructions to larger nozzles and using leaded gasoline. The use of leaded gasoline in cars equipped with catalytic cataly-tic converters (the anti-pollution device made mandatory by law) can badly damage converters. Also, these cars begin to emit polluted air contrary to the intent of antipollution anti-pollution laws. THERE IS currently no federal law against the use of leaded gasoline in recently-built recently-built converter cars, though such laws exist in 39 states. E.P.A. officials are now increasing their efforts to catch violators of these state laws. They are also pressing the oil companies to reduce the difference in price between regular and unleaded gasoline, which in some slates has been as much as fifteen or eighteen cents a gallon. |
