Leaded gasoline seemed like a great idea at the time, but it turns out that aerosolizing a neurotoxin is bad for human health and society as a whole. After a brief project car update we tell the story of tetraethyllead (at 27 min), get Zach’s ideas for running a car company (at 1 hour), and hear Bryant's field report from the recent 24 Hours of Lemons race in Colorado (at 1:21).
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Is it true that they could have used just ethanol but said "eh we can't patent that, lead should be"
I don't know about patents, but ethanol was more expensive
Yeah but this isn't oil, just an additive that they knew it was dangerous from the start
He likes potatoes. Or at least Milo Edwards' version of him does.
I just wish I had mass transit so that my sport car wouldn't need to be street legal to get to work.
Sources:
https://www.thedrive.com/news/42203/leaded-gasoline-finally-banned-worldwide-after-last-country-uses-up-its-supply
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2017/06/01/new-evidence-that-lead-exposure-increases-crime/
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/02/lead-exposure-gasoline-crime-increase-children-health/
The Dollop podcast about Thomas Midgley Jr. https://allthingscomedy.com/podcasts/393---thomas-midgley
Glad to provide you with slop, I hope your new swamp is comfortable
Here's another recap of the Colorado Lemons race, with some more info about the Dodge pickup and how the steering column was fixed: https://youtu.be/KB6AsFkgz9w
