[T3] Lead in gasoline

[Gary Forsmo]

I found this on Wikipedia.

TEL (*Tetraethyllead) *phaseout began in 1976 and was completed by 1986. A
1994 study indicated that the concentration of lead in the blood of the U.S.
population had dropped 78% from 1976 to
1991.[20]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#cite_note-19>

By 2000, the TEL industry had moved the major portion of their sales to
developing countries whose governments they lobbied against phasing out
leaded gasoline.[13]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#cite_note-Kitman-12>Leaded
gasoline was withdrawn entirely from the European Union market on 1
January 2000, although it had been banned much earlier in most member
states. It was phased out in China
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China>beginning around 2001.
[*citation needed
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>*]In the
United
Kingdom <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom> a small amount of
leaded gasoline ("four-star petrol") is still permitted to be manufactured
and sold for use in classic cars,[*citation
needed<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>
*] albeit with a higher rate of fuel duty. In Australia, owners of old cars
built to run on leaded petrol can buy lead additives and mix them with
octane 98 fuel (premium unleaded).[*citation
needed<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>
*]

Gary "Frito" - '69 Variant, FI, MT

Lake Geneva, WI
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