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By NATHAN R. HINES
Battalion Reporter
Car advertisments tell people to
buy a car because of its high gas
“Vniieage. Statements like “with an
EPA-estimated 32 miles per gallon”
gave become household common
places.
■The Environmental Protection
gency is responsible for these num-
ars, but they aren’t very represen-
itive, says Rick Tonda, a research
ngineer at the Texas Transportation
istitute.
“These numbers (estimated miles
r gallon) are correct as far as lab
onditions go, but they aren’t very
curate for road driving condi-
ns,” Tonda said.
Tonda and researchers at TTI,
fhich is a part of the Texas A&M
tlniversity System, have been asked
by the EPA to evaluate the proce-
(jures currently used to determine
ileage and to see if a procedure
be found that is more represent-
ive of actual highway mileage.
“One of the main problems, as far
accuracy goes, is that the test cars
e tested at 40 percent fill weight,”
Tonda said. “This means if a car’s gas
ink holds 10 gallons, only four gal
lons are used. This cuts down on the
weight of the car and allows it to get
better mileage.”
“Another difference is the tests are
run on a dynamometer. This
machine allows the car’s wheels to
turn, simulating driving, while the
car remains still. This allows the car
to run on an infinitely smooth sur
face, no wind resistance, and a con
stant temperature.
“The constant temperature plays a
major part in fuel economy. Running
on the dynamometer doesn’t allow
wind to pass under the car and cool
the running gear. The car will run
more efficiently when the fluids are
hot, and we are trying to determine if
this is a factor.
“Another factor involved is that
the test procedure the EPA de
veloped was based on the way cars
were driven in Los Angeles. This
procedure (called the LA 4) produces
accurate numbers, but not factual
numbers.
“Reports show the driver’s MPG
will be from 15 percent less to five
percent more than the EPA’s esti
mates. The variation comes from dif
ferences between the EPA fuel effi
ciency determinations and how the
average motorist drives his car. It’s
the difference between the lab and
test track or road."
Tonda, who is the head of TTI’s
Emmissions Testing Lab, and his
crew of researchers are using eight
automobiles ranging in size from
economical compacts to full-sized
luxury cars to test the EPA’s proce
dure.
“First, we tune the cars to the fac
tory specifications. Then we will run
the car on the dynamometer and get
the results,” he said. “After that we
will run the car on the test track,
using the same procedure as before.
If the procedure is correct, the num
bers should be the same.
“When we receive the test results
we can determine whether the
EPA’s tests are accurate or not.
“The American public is being
forced to make decisions about num
bers pasted in a car window that they
know nothing about. This isn’t the
fault of the car manufacturers or the
EPA. It’s the fault of Congress for
requiring the numbers to be there.
“My suggestion is to take the num
bers from all the cars, rank the cars,
and then put the cars in one of 10
categories. Then we can tell the peo
ple buying the car how the car ranks
instead of giving them some num
bers that are hard to understand.”
Tonda offered some advice in
reading the EPA milage estimates.
“This sounds like a commercial, but
use the numbers as an estimate^
Your actual mileage will vary.”
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By DEBBIE NELSON
Battalion Staff
The College Station city council
ipproved a request for $50,000 to
dek off a program promoting indust
rial growth in the county at Thurs
day’s council meeting.
The soon-to-be incorporated Col-
ege Station Industrial Foundation
vill use the money to hire a staff and
let up an office.
Foundation President D. H.
Goehring and Mayor Gary Halter
both said the organization will be
Iboking for high-technology elec-
ihonic and research-oriented indus-
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The foundation will be playing off
the strengths of Texas A&M Univer
sity in attracting industries here.
Halter said.
“College Station has been accused
of not wanting industry in the past. I
don’t think that anyone can accuse us
of that anymore, ” he said.
One aim of the organization is to
expand the tax base in both College
Station and the school district.
Secondarily, the thirteen-
member board of directors will seek
out industrial development else
where in Brazos County.
The already-existing Brazos Coun
ty Industrial Development Founda
tion and Bryan-College Station
Chamber of Commerce will work
closely with the new organization
soheiting and advertising for indust
rial development in the county.
Goehring said the foundation has
no plan for developing a city-owned
industrial park like the one in Bryan
at this time. But privately-owned in
dustrial parks would be a possibility.
Halter foresees no problem in
funding the organization with
$50,000 from the 1980-81 hotel-
motel tax fund. The 4 percent tax on
hotel rooms rented in the city in
creases every time the cost of renting
a room rises. One-fourth of the fund
is spent on tourist promotion, with
the remainder spent on city build
ings, activities and facilities.
In other action, the city council
approved $2,000 for the city’s parks
department — $1,500 for the Spring
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