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To: Eric who wrote (61626)	12/5/2014 7:59:49 AM
From: miraje	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

By 1976 you couldn't get gas with lead in it for cars here at the pump in the U.S. Wrong, by a mile. You could still get leaded gas at the pump in the US up until the mid nineties.. en.wikipedia.org

To: Eric who wrote (61626)	12/5/2014 10:34:32 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

I forget the year, but it was long after 1976. <By 1976 you couldn't get gas with lead in it for cars here at the pump in the U.S.> Catalytic converters were only introduced in the 1970s to counter Los Angeles smog. It was into the 1990s before the last of lead in gasoline when the fleet of non-catalytic converter cars had dwindled sufficiently to not be a political problem. From Wikipedia <The first widespread introduction of catalytic converters was in the United States automobile market. Manufacturers of 1975 model year equipped gasoline-powered vehicles with catalytic converters to comply with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's stricter regulation of exhaust emissions.> The poisoning of brains was not the concern in the USA, it was smog. It was only in the 1980s that Needleman et al demonstrated lead poisoning of brains at ambient air levels of lead. Even after he produced the data, Associated Octel and governments and advisors remained in ignorance about the damage being done. Associated Octel actually lied and I have the relevant papers stashed in a carton in my attic should I ever want them to demonstrate the lie. I'm chuckling here Bud at your ignorance. Don't bother pretending to knowledge on this. I guess you got too much lead when you were younger. Mqurice