The [White House] is expected to announce as early as next week requirements for cleaner gasoline and tougher pollution standard
s for the nation’s automobiles. The expected regulations would also force sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks to meet the stricter standards for passenger cars for the first time. Environmentalists are pleased, but the oil and auto industries say gasoline prices for all drivers and the costs of sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks would be increased. Source: The New York Times, April 14, 1999. According to the passage, what are the possible trade-offs for consumers in return for reduced pollution?
According to the passage, the possible trade-offs for consumers in return for reduced pollution, are that sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks will be forced to meet stricter standards as passenger cars for the first time meaning that the purchase cost of those vehicles would increase, as well as the fact that all gasoline prices will be increased. This means that for the consumers, the price point to run a car or purchase a sports vehicle or pickup truck will be increased.
The current constitution of South Africa has been created in 1996 and took effect in 1997. But the way to a democracy in RSA has been paved after the fall of Apartheid in 1994.
The answer is B. Martin Luther King Jr., the leader of the Civil Rights Movement, wished to end policies that encourage racial discrimination. He wanted both white people and black people to get along and to be equal.
