gasoline

How does a plaintiff prove her kid would have been 3-4 IQ points smarter but for the leaded gasoline produced?

This means you are 5 times more likely to experience a fire in a conventional gasoline car than a Tesla!

Those of us who own electric cars know that electric cars have already won. They are just too good compared to regular somewhat-junky gasoline cars.

Instead they threw gasoline into the fire, further inciting the mob justice that was already well underway.

We live in a world where people are routinely electrocuted trying to steal copper from live power wires and blown up stealing gasoline from pipelines.

"I've thought of the gas station metaphor: "Imagine owning a car and legally not being able to fill your tank with gasoline from any vendor you chose.

[1]The regulation ended up costing the auto/gasoline industry billions of dollars to retool.

Even if this is evidence that the Model S is probably safer with regards to fires than a traditional gasoline car, naywayers will jump on it.

It \n just can't happen, much like how a Yugo rear-ending a \n garbage truck in Brooklyn doesn't instantly consume all of \n New York City in a gasoline fireball.

> An even bigger conflict of interest with auto dealers is that they make most of their profit from service, but electric cars require much less service than gasoline cars.

There was a very interesting article[1] recently about the epidemiological link between leaded gasoline and crime.

It is similar to the numbers calculated by Ivan Illich regarding car usage in the 1970's. If you take into account the car price, gasoline, insurance, repairs, etc, and the time spent to earn that amount of money, the average speed of a car for a worker was around a few miles per hour, so not better that simply walking or bycycling.

As the phaseout was implemented between the 70's to the 90's, culminating in the outright ban of leaded gasoline in the 90's, the blood lead levels in the American population dropped from 16 micrograms per deciliter in 1976 to to 3 micrograms per deciliter in 1991.

Let's look at things like leveling-off or falling consumer demand for gasoline [1], and then let's look at the tax breaks afforded to oil companies [2], and let's ask ourselves: if we're doing everything right, if we're granting these companies record profits [3], then why haven't they lowered gas prices to increase demand like the magic formula says they will?