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To: Eric who wrote (61617)	12/4/2014 2:28:01 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

No, lead was last in petrol in 1995 [I think that was the year]. < Are you guys down in NZ still using leaded petrol there??> It should have been out 10 years earlier but it takes time to get sensible things to happen when a lot of people have to agree and the data is not spectacularly obvious even when it's carefully pointed out, which I did in great detail to any organisation which I thought might be interested [they were not]. Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Ministry of Environment, Ministers, Automobile Association, I forget them all. When they [Mobil] finally did introduce unleaded, I bought some at the first station to get it, which happened to be near our house. As I filled 'er up, [our 1974 Toyota Corona], I noticed the stink of the components they had used to boost octane instead of lead and predicted failure. Sure enough, they soon had complaints of leaking carburetors. It would also make a lot of soot to clog up the engine, oil and exhausts. There was public outcry. I was interviewed on the two tv channels explaining what they'd done wrong and how to do it right. BP got a Queens Counsel, Ailsa Duffy, kiwisfirst.com [hey, she was a Go-Go dancer!!] onto me as they obviously thought I'd said defamatory things, but when they read what I'd written and considered what I'd said, every word was true so they were up the creek without a paddle. She would have told them to shut up. BP put Beppie Holm up [who was clueless about technology] to explain their side of it. She was a public relations person. Hey, wonders of Cyberspace, here she is: linkedin.com BP did introduce BP Ultimate though, so maybe good came of it. I had been promoting high quality gasoline, especially for cities, when I was employed by them [and that was my job]. Eventually they saw the light. But oddly, they don't promote it so people actually know it's better. They do dopey advertising making claims of an emotional rather than rational nature because they mistakenly think that prospective customers are unable to think, which shows the paucity of their and their advertising agents' thinking. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them think. Speaking of thinking, what do you think of that pH in blood stuff? Anything to it? Got data? Mqurice