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Show Scientists say car pollution may be reduced Oil and automotive industry scientists predict that they will eventually be able to reduce pollution from cars by more than 90 per cent, although producing pro-ducing the automobile "hardware" "hard-ware" to do the job may be costly. Right now, according to "Petroleum Today" cars that come off the Detroit assembly lines have equipment that reduces re-duces the output of two of the major pollutants carbon monoxide mon-oxide and hydrocarbons - by as much as 70 per cent. Scientists and engineers are bringing their skill and imagination imag-ination to bear on the complex and mysterious phenomenon of automotive air pollution. And their tools, the pulication says, range from expensive computers compu-ters to their own noses. (A good sniff sometimes will tell more about pollution than the most intricate man-made apparatus.) ap-paratus.) , |