Here's what the EIA says:
Here's what the EIA says:
Health hazards associated with lead have been documented since the early 1920s. The U.S. Surgeon General set a voluntary standard for lead content in leaded gasoline. The standard was raised in the 1950s.
Gasoline and the environment - leaded gasoline - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
A brief history of leaded gasoline and why it was phased out of the U.S. gasoline supply.www.eia.gov
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No, corporations want to please their shareholders .. they want to manipulate their customers. Sometimes they get away with this, sometimes not. The whole lead additives fiasco is a clear example of manipulation. And your posts make it abundantly clear that they are indeed successful in these manipulations.
And the best for a corporation to please the shareholders is to please the customers! If the customers are not pleased, how can shareholders be pleased with that? You think a loss of revenue will please the shareholders? You did not think that through too well did you!
Is lead the only hazardous material on earth? You seem to think that it is. There are all kinds of toxins out there in the industrial world, and we have ways to deal with hazardous materials of all kinds. I’m sure in the early days of TEL, the engineers and toxicologists back then thought they could take precautions about how to deal with it like any other chemicals that are poisonous to humans. After 5 decades of data, they decided to get the lead out, and they did. You seem to have this deranged fixation on a toxic chemical, and are extrapolating that onto an entire industry, even to this day. How many people have been killed in automobiles? How many killed from aircraft, motorcycles, buses, trains, food poisoning, gas explosions, etc? There are all kinds of hazards out there. And we are all doing our best to deal with it. Civilization is not an easy thing to do.Why Lead Used to Be Added To Gasoline
Today I found out why lead used to be added to gasoline. “Tetraethyl lead” was used in early model cars to help reduce engine knocking, boost octane ratings, and help with wear and tear on valve seats within the motor. Due to concerns over air pollution and health risks, this type of gas was...
The problems with Tetraethyl lead were known even before major oil companies began using it. In 1922, while plans for production of leaded gasoline were just getting underway, Thomas Midgley received a letter from Charles Klaus, a German scientist, stating of lead, “it’s a creeping and malicious poison” and warned that it had killed a fellow scientist. This didn’t seem to faze Midley, who himself came down with lead poisoning during the planning phase. While recovering in Miami, Midgley wrote to an oil industry engineer that public poisoning was “almost impossible, as no one will repeatedly get their hands covered in gasoline containing lead…” Other opposition to lead came from a lab director for the Public Health Service (A part of the US Department of Health and Human Services ) who wrote to the assistant surgeon general stating lead was a “serious menace to public health”.
Despite the warnings, production on leaded gasoline began in 1923. It didn’t take long for workers to begin succumbing to lead poisoning. At DuPont’s manufacturing plant in Deepwater New Jersey workers began to fall like dominoes. One worker died in the autumn of 1923. Three died in the summer of 1924 and four more in the winter of 1925. Despite this, public controversy didn’t begin until five workers died and forty-four were hospitalized in Oct. of 1924 at Standard Oils plant in Bayway NJ.
Lead is only one example of the way industry has lied and covered up their toxic products. Lots of examples.
So, let’s just go back to the horse and buggy, and deal with the fecal matter from horses. That seems to be your suggestion.
You used a brief single sentence statement to try to support a weak position. A simple Google search provides plenty of actual background to show that your interpretation of this sentence is incorrect. The "when health problems from lead became apparent" doesn't necessarily mean in the 1970s. You've been pointed to other resources but seem to ignore those. This is an example of motivated reasoning.
All matter is made of chemicals; basically everything is a chemical. I personally disagree with the use of the word in the pejorative.
Again, you are being naive. To be sure, you need customers to generate revenue, but do you need to actually please them? There are many ways to control customers: advertising, adjusting expectations (usually downward), monopolistic practices, contractual limitations, forced arbitration, artificial legal barriers etc etc. And all of these are used by modern corporations to manipulate and control customer expectation and demand. Sure, occasionally someone comes along to upset things, but only after a huge battle with the entrenched position. Tesla is in fact one of these disruptive companies at the moment.
