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Fuel problems to continue

WASHINGTON (UPI)
The American automobile
population is building up so
much faster than the human
population that it seems
unlikely overall gasoline

consumption will decrease

anytime soon, a researcher
_said today.

Writing in the AFLGCIO
Federationist magazine,

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Anthony Downs said, “The
United States is experiencing
an amazing, yet almost
unnoticed, ‘population
explosion’ - not of people but
of automobile vehicles.”

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The implications are
severe for urban growth, air
quality, mobility and
congestion as well as the
consumption of fuel, he said.

Downs, a senior fellow at
the Brookings Institution,
wrote the article originally
for the Traffic Quarterly and

it was reprinted in the
August issue of the
Federationist.

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U.S. autos taking over from peo

He said that as of the end
of 1977, there were ap-
proximately 129 million
vehicles in the United States
for its 217 million people.
Downs said the vehicle
population is growing 2.5
times as fast-as the nation’s
people population.

U.S. vehicles consume 39
percent of the nation’s oil

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energy

and 18 percent
nation’s overall
output, Downs said.

“Such consumption rose
even faster from 1950 to
1975 than the number of
vehicles, mainly because the
fraction of all vehicles
comprised of trucks in-
creased and gas mileage per |
car declined.”

He added, “Whether the
31 percent growth of vehicle
population from 1976 to
1985 that was projected
earlier will expand oil
consumption still further
depends on how fast large
cars are replaced § with
smaller ones that get more
miles per gallon,” he said.

“Even soptimistic
assumptions about such
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indicate that total U.S. fuel
‘consumption from motor.
vehicles may rise around 15
percent from 1976 to 1985," |

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