No one has yet mentioned lead in gasoline. One hundred years ago Thomas Midgely was hired to find an additive for gasoline to reduce engine knocking. He discovered that ethanol would work but that was rejected because adding lead provided more profit. The lead in our environment that will not ever disappear. This is the story:
No one has yet mentioned lead in gasoline. One hundred years ago Thomas Midgely was hired to find an additive for gasoline to reduce engine knocking. He discovered that ethanol would work but that was rejected because adding lead provided more profit. The lead in our environment that will not ever disappear. This is the story:
Well, THAT was interesting - it wouldnt come up from your link, but I copied/pasted & got it online. Only read about 3/4 of it, but frankly its par for the course, isnt it? Oil companies, car companies, "public" health?????? Its the same as almost any other "new" wonderful product - cigarettes, nuclear energy, fracking, on and on. Jump into it & make a profit which keeps the industry - whichever one it is - continuing to make a profit - no matter what!
No one has yet mentioned lead in gasoline. One hundred years ago Thomas Midgely was hired to find an additive for gasoline to reduce engine knocking. He discovered that ethanol would work but that was rejected because adding lead provided more profit. The lead in our environment that will not ever disappear. This is the story:
http://www.thenation.com/article/secret-history-lead
A better link: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/secret-history-lead/
Well, THAT was interesting - it wouldnt come up from your link, but I copied/pasted & got it online. Only read about 3/4 of it, but frankly its par for the course, isnt it? Oil companies, car companies, "public" health?????? Its the same as almost any other "new" wonderful product - cigarettes, nuclear energy, fracking, on and on. Jump into it & make a profit which keeps the industry - whichever one it is - continuing to make a profit - no matter what!