Name: Anonymous 2007-09-14 0:06 ID:aTGkJBrX
The negative heath effects of lead were well known in the 1910s when oil companies started adding it to gasoline. Leaded gasoline had the ability to reduce engine knocking, which was notoriously bad in the early age of automobiles. To the heartless and uncaring, the advantages were unquestionable. Unsurprisingly every major gasoline manufacturer in the world was soon adding lead to the mix.
Again, there was no debate about the effects of lead. People inside and outside the oil companies readily agreed that it caused birth defects, retardation, learning disabilities, joint problems, poisoning and even cancer and neurological damage. Mechanics and automotive workers were particularly susceptible, and showed a much higher rates of illness. Yet trillions of gallons of leaded gasoline were put into the air decade after decade.
Atmospheric lead rates soared for over sixty years. The whole planet was literally being poisoned. There was an outcry from the public. Petition after petition was sent to no effect. The invisible hand of the market could only limply hold the impotent, flaccid cock of the oil industry.
Lead wasn't removed from gasoline until the 1980s, when a President Reagan and a Democratic controlled congress passed a federal law that allowed EPA to regulate leaded gasoline. Regulation worked where the free market failed. With the new tool at its disposal, the EPA promptly banned lead from automotive gasoline and moved to ban it from all other types as well. But the airlines had a tantrum and to this day, leaded gasoline is still used in aircraft fuels.
The Moral Of The Story: Libertarians are smoking crack when they say their idiot political system can reduce environmental dangers. For every success story like the Chinese toy recall, theres a thousand others that the public to too stupid to pay any attention to. We need the willingness of Congress along with the concentrated expertise of the federal bureaucracy to regulate these complex issues. There's so much behind the scenes invisible hard work involved. Sure people complain, but most countries would kill to have our FDA or EPA. We need to straighten these institutions, not weaken them.
90% of the libertarians are humanities majors who don't even understand the complexity of what's involved. They take an objectivist, Ayn Rand "i got mine fuck everyone else" view of the world. Also they're all faggots.
We can do better.
Don't vote Ron Paul 2008.
Again, there was no debate about the effects of lead. People inside and outside the oil companies readily agreed that it caused birth defects, retardation, learning disabilities, joint problems, poisoning and even cancer and neurological damage. Mechanics and automotive workers were particularly susceptible, and showed a much higher rates of illness. Yet trillions of gallons of leaded gasoline were put into the air decade after decade.
Atmospheric lead rates soared for over sixty years. The whole planet was literally being poisoned. There was an outcry from the public. Petition after petition was sent to no effect. The invisible hand of the market could only limply hold the impotent, flaccid cock of the oil industry.
Lead wasn't removed from gasoline until the 1980s, when a President Reagan and a Democratic controlled congress passed a federal law that allowed EPA to regulate leaded gasoline. Regulation worked where the free market failed. With the new tool at its disposal, the EPA promptly banned lead from automotive gasoline and moved to ban it from all other types as well. But the airlines had a tantrum and to this day, leaded gasoline is still used in aircraft fuels.
The Moral Of The Story: Libertarians are smoking crack when they say their idiot political system can reduce environmental dangers. For every success story like the Chinese toy recall, theres a thousand others that the public to too stupid to pay any attention to. We need the willingness of Congress along with the concentrated expertise of the federal bureaucracy to regulate these complex issues. There's so much behind the scenes invisible hard work involved. Sure people complain, but most countries would kill to have our FDA or EPA. We need to straighten these institutions, not weaken them.
90% of the libertarians are humanities majors who don't even understand the complexity of what's involved. They take an objectivist, Ayn Rand "i got mine fuck everyone else" view of the world. Also they're all faggots.
We can do better.
Don't vote Ron Paul 2008.