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The cost to consumers, on the other hand, is estimated to be high, widening what is already a growing affordability gap for motor vehicles.
In 1982, the average price of a car was $9,890. Today, thanks in large measure to the mounting costs of federal regulations, that cost is $17,784. The estimated cost of meeting the California standards with electrically heated catalysts is about $1,000. And this does not include increases in fuel costs, which are expected to rise about 15 to 20 cents per gallon, as a result of an increased use of reformulated fuels and new federal gas tax increases.
Researchers from MIT, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, University of California and the California Institute of Technol, ogy wrote in a recent issue of Science magazine, “It is not necessary,
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