Leaded Gasoline and Personal Responsibility

I don't know why I even bother but:
Overview: Leaded Gasoline History and Current Situation

By Bill Kovarik

SUMMARY: Leaded gasoline should be counted among the great environmental disasters of the 20th century, given the numbers of people killed or slowly poisoned by the dull grey metal. Significantly. alternatives were well known from the beginning and preferred by the same researchers who created leaded gasoline. They originally saw it as nothing more than a bridge to other, safer fuels. Leaded gasoline was phased out in the US from 1975 - 1986 and in Europe in the 1990s. It is still being used in the developing world.

The full article can be found at:

http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/ethylwar/overview.html

And there are other sites where you can corroborate the history that is outlined here.

I personally believe that the history of corporate behavior is so reprehensible that this particular story is more typical than aberrant. The fact that the Ethel Corporation's files pertaining to the issue of lead additives to gasoline (what was known and when) are still not open to the public is itself a "crime."