[lbo-talk] Violent crime and ... leaded gasoline

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Tetraethyl lead. May well have been patented.  Don't know whether or how much the fact might have influenced the choice for lead back when. But choosing ethanol would have required a major, major capital investment, in plants, pipelines, big changes in agricultural policy (ethanol is made from grain). I don't know how that would have compared to the investment that went into,lead. But it seems to be relevant that when they stopped with lead they went to MTBE outside the grain farming sections of the country. If ethanol had been the  least cost choice at the time they probably would have gone with it then.

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On Jan 18, 2013, at 11:53 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:


> I am just summarizing the claim made in the Nation article - they said
> that the specific led additive that they uses called tetra.. something
> was patented, and ethanol was not and that it influenced the decision.
> I do not have any expertise in this field to judge the validity of
> this claim.
> 
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