[Perturbed]

[QUOTE BY= Milton] SPECIAL REPORT <br /> by JAMIE LINCOLN KITMAN <br /> <br /> <p>The next time you pull the family barge in for a fill-up, check it out: The gas pumps read "Unleaded." You might reasonably suppose this is because naturally occurring lead has been thoughtfully removed from the gasoline. But you would be wrong. There is no lead in gasoline unless somebody puts it there. And, a little more than seventy-five years ago, some of America's leading corporations--General Motors, Du Pont and Standard Oil of New Jersey (known nowadays as Exxon)--were that somebody. They got together and put lead, a known poison, into gasoline, for profit.<br /> <p>Lead was outlawed as an automotive gasoline additive in this country in 1986--more than sixty years after its introduction--to enable the use of emissions-reducing catalytic converters in cars (which are contaminated and rendered useless by lead) and to address the myriad health and safety concerns that have shadowed the toxic additive from its first, tentative appearance on US roads in the twenties, through a period of international ubiquity only recently ending. Since the virtual disappearance of leaded gas in the United States (it's still sold for use in propeller airplanes), the mean blood-lead level of the American population has declined more than 75 percent. A 1985 EPA study estimated that as many as 5,000 Americans died annually from lead-related heart disease prior to the country's lead phaseout. According to a 1988 report to Congress on childhood lead poisoning in America by the government's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, one can estimate that the blood-lead levels of up to 2 million children were reduced every year to below toxic levels between 1970 and 1987 as leaded gasoline use was reduced. From that report and elsewhere, one can conservatively estimate that a total of about 68 million young children had toxic exposures to lead from gasoline from 1927 to 1987.<br /> <p>Go to <a href="http://www.internetpirate.com/leadconspiracy.htm">internet pirate</a> to read the whole sordid story of how corporations and governments have acted in collusion, then consider that this is just the tip of the iceberg.[/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> I don't have the time to look now, but apparently the replacement for lead is even worse unless car makers add a certain part to engines at added cost--which they have chosen to not do.<br /> <br /> I also believe Britain still has leaded gasoline.<br /> <br /> It is scary that there are other issue sout there, but perhaps we simply don't have the world yet that we thougt we did.<br /> <br /> Fluride and PBDEs 2 other horrors that Europe largely rectified but Canada has not--by virute of U.S. pressure. Good luck enforcing the ban of trans fats.<br /> <br /> I think people like Orchard and Suzuki are helping us realize that following U.S. policy is accepting environmental wisdom from dinosaurs. It IS affecting our health.

[Calumny]

Thanks, Milton.<br /> <br /> Hope others read this. As indicated, the issues discussed go far beyond lead and gas. <br /> <br />

[Guest]

They do go farther <br /> what would be interesting to know is the stories that <br /> <br /> Project Censored rejected?<br /> <br /> dennis baker

[Perturbed]

[QUOTE BY= dbaker] They do go farther <br /> what would be interesting to know is the stories that <br /> <br /> Project Censored rejected?<br /> <br /> dennis baker[/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> <br /> You'll have to enlighten me as to what Project Censored is, and what they have censored...

[Spud]

I read this issue of The Nation when it first appeared.It is very interesting.It also shows how far big business will go to make money.

[Guest]

Project Censored, <b>claims</b> to cover the news that has been Censored by the Main Stream Media.<br /> <br /> I know they participated in my being Censored, so I was wondering about others whom they refused to cover?<br /> <br /> Dennis Baker

[Jesse]

[QUOTE BY= dbaker] Project Censored, <b>claims</b> to cover the news that has been Censored by the Main Stream Media.<br /> <br /> I know they participated in my being Censored, so I was wondering about others whom they refused to cover?<br /> <br /> Dennis Baker[/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> Once again, there is a huge difference between being ignored and being censored. No one is obligated to post a particular story, especially when there are others that should get higher priority. Dbaker, as has previously been pointed out, vive is NOT the place to complain of such things, and a site of your own would be a much more appropriate forum. It is completely off-topic for a discussion about fuel additives.<br /> <br /> Project Censored can be found at http://www.projectcensored.org/<br />

[Guest]

reductions in ChildhoodLeukemia, Bronchitis , Athsma and Infant Mortality, are low on your priority list we allready acertained that!<br /> <br /> somehow I think your priorities are not in keeping with the average Canadian Citizen<br /> <br /> You seem to have a Beaurocratic point of view.<br /> Control matters above all else.<br /> <br /> Dennis Baker

[Jesse]

[QUOTE BY= dbaker] reductions in ChildhoodLeukemia, Bronchitis , Athsma and Infant Mortality, are low on your priority list we allready acertained that!<br /> [/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> Did your post make any mention of those? No. Did mine? No. If you insist on irrelevant accusations, expect to be met with skepticism.

[Guest]

"Once again, there is a huge difference between being ignored and being censored. No one is obligated to post a particular story, especially when there are others that should get higher priority."<br /> <br /> yes you did <br /> dennis Baker