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Asbestos shouldn't be compared to leaded gasoline imo. It's quite safe and inert if you don't physically disturb it.
by voldacar 3y ago
Asbestos shouldn't be compared to leaded gasoline imo. It's quite safe and inert if you don't physically disturb it.
- seiferteric 3y agoWell so is leaded gas, the problem is people kept burning it!
- fomine3 3y agoAlso adopting asbestos were somewhat reasonable at that time (from thousands years ago to hundred year ago). Leaded gasoline was terrible from the beginning. They don't adopt ethanol for profit.
- TylerE 3y agoYou’re confusing quite a few things here. Ethanol wasn’t put in gasoline until decades after the lead came out. Ethanol was absolutely added for profit… but much like HFCS, it was about propping up big agribusiness.
- fomine3 3y agoThis is what I meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_F._Kettering#Flxible,_and_later_career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_F._Kettering#Flxible,_...
- maxerickson 3y agoEthanol replaced MBTE. MBTE is awful (any persistent groundwater contaminant is awful) and it's a good thing it's gone. Higher percentages of ethanol are arguably not worthwhile, but getting rid of MBTE is almost certainly the right choice.
- voldacar 3y agoThey adopted ethanol because of the farm lobby
- rcme 3y agoHow do you mine, manufacture, install, or remove it without physically disturbing it?