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It appeared quite suddenly.

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Thick, silvery blue clouds
descended

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over Los Angeles.

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When folks came out
of their house, their
eyes began to sting.

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Their throats began to burn.

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And there's people wheezing.

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People not being able
to breathe clearly.

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It was so bad the cars
crashed and the Los
Angeles airport shut down.

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All of us that live in
Los Angeles realized that
we have a smog problem.

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But local governments,

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really had no idea

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what it was.

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If this keeps up,

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I'm going to leave
California for the sake of
my children and myself.

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There was an immense amount
of pressure to figure
out what's going on here.

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We did some rather wild
demonstrations with little
children in gas masks.

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And one of the things
that Los Angeles did was
to bring in an expert.

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This device here then
will recreate smog as we
breathe it in Los Angeles.

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That's right.

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He was the one who
discovers that what's
coming out of automobiles

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is what's causing
our smog problem.

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What is smog and where
does it come from?

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Well, I don't know.

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The petroleum interests
try to undercut the findings,

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and the auto manufacturers
simply deny that their
product caused any problems.

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And they ignored research.

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That a high school student would
recognize this is a conspiracy.

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So Los Angeles County
actually says, you've got to
create some sort of device

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to control the amount
of hydrocarbons that are
coming out of automobiles.

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But you're not going
to beat a industry

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like the car makers without
some big guns on your side.

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And the only way to
do that was to take it
up to the state level.

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And bring together
people from all kinds
of ideological stripes,

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with a common civic commitment
to a common civic goal.

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My fellow Californians,
today we lead the nation in
the battle for cleaner air.

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It would revolutionize
the auto industry.

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In the future,

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motorists and pedestrian
are going to be pollution free.

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And this would have
a tremendous effect

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on the quality of air
that we all breathe to this day.