A Cautionary Tale of the Price of Corporate Greed
As noted in the film, this one substance, tetraethyl lead, added to gasoline, has had near-unfathomable repercussions for the health of the global community. Children exposed to lead were found to have significantly decreased IQ, for example. In one study, there was a six point difference in average IQ scores between children with the highest levels of lead in their teeth and those with the lowest levels.
Those with high lead exposure during childhood also had a seven-fold increased risk of not finishing high school, so the researchers were able to demonstrate that exposure to leaded gas had real-life, long-term ramifications on health and productivity. The loss in productivity in the US alone from these reductions in IQ is in the many billions of dollars.
By the end of the 1990s, lead was completely phased out of gasoline, replaced instead with the original alternative — alcohol. From beginning to end, lead was used in gasoline for nearly 80 years, causing unimaginable harm across the globe, just because the oil industry didn’t want to forgo a portion of its potential profits. We could have used alcohol to boost the octane level all along, had less greedy minds prevailed.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/10/10/leaded-gasoline.aspx
Give up the global warming and focus on the lead.
As noted in the film, this one substance, tetraethyl lead, added to gasoline, has had near-unfathomable repercussions for the health of the global community. Children exposed to lead were found to have significantly decreased IQ, for example. In one study, there was a six point difference in average IQ scores between children with the highest levels of lead in their teeth and those with the lowest levels.
Those with high lead exposure during childhood also had a seven-fold increased risk of not finishing high school, so the researchers were able to demonstrate that exposure to leaded gas had real-life, long-term ramifications on health and productivity. The loss in productivity in the US alone from these reductions in IQ is in the many billions of dollars.
By the end of the 1990s, lead was completely phased out of gasoline, replaced instead with the original alternative — alcohol. From beginning to end, lead was used in gasoline for nearly 80 years, causing unimaginable harm across the globe, just because the oil industry didn’t want to forgo a portion of its potential profits. We could have used alcohol to boost the octane level all along, had less greedy minds prevailed.
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/10/10/leaded-gasoline.aspx
Give up the global warming and focus on the lead.
Looks like news hit that OPEC will be possibly announcing future hikes in output moderately over several months with future increases after that.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/15/opec-is-about-to-shake-up-the-oil-market.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/15/opec-is-about-to-shake-up-the-oil-market.html