>>13178204leaded gasoline is so fucked up
from day one it was known that it would cause health effects
a conference was even called to debate better alternatives to TEL, but was immediately shut down by the government to protect the business interests of the company that had a monopoly on TEL production
the american lead industry then managed to create a monopoly on funding research into lead poisoning and fired/discredited/sued any researcher who tried to show leaded fuels were unsafe
when it was finally impossible to ignore the effects of leaded fuel, it was determined that nearly every child in North America born between roughly 1950 and 1980 suffered permanent brain damage, and that any croplands adjacent to major highways will still have lead levels over the accepted minimum for decades at the least
meanwhile, you still have to go and discover this all for yourself because the US government is terrified that the general public will realize that they were systematically poisoned for a century so that one company could make big profits
also explains the downturn in IQ in developed nations and why boomers are so retarded and selfish
