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Article: Motoring into the future. (alternatives to gasoline)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- February 4, 1991
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The war in the Persian Gulf has heightened the urgency of finding alternatives to gasoline
Operation Desert Storm has underscored in the most dramatic way possible America's continued dependence on imported oil. But one fact that remains poorly appreciated is that the only crucial energy-supply problem facing the country today is the fueling of Americans' favorite personal technology, the automobile. And that crisis, too, is likely to begin diminishing before the end of the century, as clean-air policies force the development of alternative motor fuels and motor cars that use them. In fact, America could enter the next millennium well on the way toward reducing ...