Why was nobody ever held responsible for
Lead Gasoline
Lead Paints
Lead Pencils
Lead smelting emissions
Lead has been shown to lower IQ, especially in the developing brain of a child & adolescent.
Yet nobody was ever held accountable?
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Worth reading this if you have ever owned a vehicle.... \/
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In 1921, competition in the expanding American automobile market was fierce. Ford's Model T
outsold all other manufacturers, and General Motor's flagship product, the Cadillac, had a motor
knock. The Model T was economical, dependable, and easy to fix. Its performance, however, was
unremarkable and it had as much style as an orthopedic shoe. Charles F. Kettering, director of
research at General Motors, chafed in second place. He had a plan: he would displace Ford with
a high-performance engine in a fashionable GM auto body. The best way to achieve high engine
performance is to increase compression in the cylinder. Squeeze the air-fuel mixture in the
cylinder into a smaller volume and it will detonate with much more force. But when the gas
volume is severely compressed, it acts like diesel fuel and ignites prematurely. This is engine
knock, and it causes loss of power and eventual damage to the engine. Kettering set Thomas
Midgely, his close associate and principal chemist in GM's Dayton, Ohio, research laboratory, to
find an antiknock agent.
In December of that year, after trying and discarding many compounds, Midgely tested an old
German patent, tetraethyl lead (TEL), in the laboratory engine, which was knocking on ordinary
gasoline. It immediately began to run smoothly and silently. A new product was born, and a new
firm, General Motors Chemical Company, Kettering named the new fuel Ethyl Gas. Nowhere was
the word lead mentioned on the product label. That Memorial Day the new fuel was used by
some of the drivers in the Indianapolis 500. This shrewd marketing step was a spectacular
success: the first, second, and third-place winners all ran on ethyl gasoline.
tl/dr,
General Motors, Thomas Midgely employed by Charles. F. Kettering, used German tech on gasoline, introducing LEAD.
General Motors poisoned the world with this introduction.
There is a theme with these chemical companies, DoW is another example. They repeatedly poison the planet.
This post was edited by Mondain on Apr 23 2025 10:08am