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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.