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    FINISH LINE

    Dec 11, 2020 3 minutes
    By David Freiburger

    Roadkill @davidfreiburger

    25 Years of the Crusher Camaro

    I’m gonna tell the story of the Crusher Camaro because it’s celebrating 25 years as a project and because it’s presented me with a fresh dilemma. The story begins in 1994 when California law allowed gasoline companies to crush older cars in exchange for smog credits that allowed continued polluting from wells and refineries. The bureaucratic presumption was that killing an old car would take it off the road and therefore stop it from polluting, thereby offsetting the smog from the refineries.

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