40StudeDude
04-18-2007, 09:29 PM
Ryan,
I'm posting to a thread...I have only copy...no images in my post...what gives with this I'm gettign when I submit it?? I've tired to post this three times, but each time I get the same answer.
R-
"You have included 37 images in your message. You are limited to using 20 images so please go back and correct the problem and then continue again.
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Here's what I'm submitting:
“Ethyl”…?” Curiosity got me…didn’t know where the term “Ethyl” came from, so did a little internet history search, here’s what I found: Tetraethyl lead was discovered in December,1921, (by General Motors researchers Thomas Midgley and Charles Kettering)…there were two kinds of "ethyl" on the horizon for General Motors: Ethyl leaded gasoline, which would serve as a efficiency booster for gasoline (anti-knock compound), and ethyl alcohol, the "fuel of the future" that would keep America's cars on the roads no matter what happened to domestic or world oil supply.
Sometime in 1923/1924, a controversy broke out about public health impacts of lead in gasoline. The media was told that no alternative (fuels) existed. "So far as science knows at the present, tetraethyl lead is the only material available which can bring about [anti-knock] results, which are of vital importance to the continued economic use by the general public in all automotive equipment, and unless an inescapable hazard exists in the manufacture of tetraethyl lead, its abandonment cannot be justified." Even though experts like Alice Hamilton (Harvard University) insisted alternatives to leaded gasoline were available, the Public Health Service, in 1926, allowed leaded gasoline to remain on the market. Leaded gasoline was eventually banned in 1986 for the public health concerns that had been expressed 60 years earlier.
By mid-1930s, the alliance between General Motors, DuPont Corp. and Standard Oil to produce Ethyl leaded gasoline succeeded beyond all expectations: 90 percent of all gasoline contained lead. Public health crusaders spoke out, but competitors were not allowed to criticize leaded gasoline. In a restraining order forbidding criticism, the Federal Trade Commission said Ethyl gasoline "is entirely safe to the health of motorists and the general public when used as a motor fuel, and is not…dangerous to the health of the public."
As Ethyl's marketing power grew, the company began to enforce what it considered "business ethics." The Ethyl corporation refused to grant dealer contracts to certain wholesalers, often providing no formal explanation for the action. The exclusion of "unethical" businessmen was aimed at those who cut prices…a means of excluding wholesalers that adopted practices which the oil industry disliked. Since advertising created enormous consumer demand for Ethyl, to be denied an Ethyl contract was, in effect, forcing wholesalers out of business. Wholesalers would not reveal to the Federal Bureau of Investigation why the Ethyl corporation considered them unethical. In 1940, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an anti-trust verdict against Ethyl. Clearly, the tactics used by the oil industry involved more than simple marketplace competition and public relations in response to the prospect of legislative controls. Yet, economic issues and assumptions are at the heart of the dispute and deserve careful consideration.
Source: The Fuel of the Future, sub title: Automakers, Ethyl Alcohol and Tetra-Ethyl Lead (edited for clarity by the author)
Hmmmm, IMHO, the oil industry pulled the wool over the government’s, and consumer’s eyes once, it certainly does make one curious about the so-called “gas shortage” of the mid 1970’s then, doesn’t it? And…today, the way prices fluctuate daily/weekly? Think there’s some secret wink & nod going on here?
I'm posting to a thread...I have only copy...no images in my post...what gives with this I'm gettign when I submit it?? I've tired to post this three times, but each time I get the same answer.
R-
"You have included 37 images in your message. You are limited to using 20 images so please go back and correct the problem and then continue again.
Images include use of smilies, the vB code [img] tag and HTML <img> tags. The use of these is all subject to them being enabled by the administrator.
Here's what I'm submitting:
“Ethyl”…?” Curiosity got me…didn’t know where the term “Ethyl” came from, so did a little internet history search, here’s what I found: Tetraethyl lead was discovered in December,1921, (by General Motors researchers Thomas Midgley and Charles Kettering)…there were two kinds of "ethyl" on the horizon for General Motors: Ethyl leaded gasoline, which would serve as a efficiency booster for gasoline (anti-knock compound), and ethyl alcohol, the "fuel of the future" that would keep America's cars on the roads no matter what happened to domestic or world oil supply.
Sometime in 1923/1924, a controversy broke out about public health impacts of lead in gasoline. The media was told that no alternative (fuels) existed. "So far as science knows at the present, tetraethyl lead is the only material available which can bring about [anti-knock] results, which are of vital importance to the continued economic use by the general public in all automotive equipment, and unless an inescapable hazard exists in the manufacture of tetraethyl lead, its abandonment cannot be justified." Even though experts like Alice Hamilton (Harvard University) insisted alternatives to leaded gasoline were available, the Public Health Service, in 1926, allowed leaded gasoline to remain on the market. Leaded gasoline was eventually banned in 1986 for the public health concerns that had been expressed 60 years earlier.
By mid-1930s, the alliance between General Motors, DuPont Corp. and Standard Oil to produce Ethyl leaded gasoline succeeded beyond all expectations: 90 percent of all gasoline contained lead. Public health crusaders spoke out, but competitors were not allowed to criticize leaded gasoline. In a restraining order forbidding criticism, the Federal Trade Commission said Ethyl gasoline "is entirely safe to the health of motorists and the general public when used as a motor fuel, and is not…dangerous to the health of the public."
As Ethyl's marketing power grew, the company began to enforce what it considered "business ethics." The Ethyl corporation refused to grant dealer contracts to certain wholesalers, often providing no formal explanation for the action. The exclusion of "unethical" businessmen was aimed at those who cut prices…a means of excluding wholesalers that adopted practices which the oil industry disliked. Since advertising created enormous consumer demand for Ethyl, to be denied an Ethyl contract was, in effect, forcing wholesalers out of business. Wholesalers would not reveal to the Federal Bureau of Investigation why the Ethyl corporation considered them unethical. In 1940, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an anti-trust verdict against Ethyl. Clearly, the tactics used by the oil industry involved more than simple marketplace competition and public relations in response to the prospect of legislative controls. Yet, economic issues and assumptions are at the heart of the dispute and deserve careful consideration.
Source: The Fuel of the Future, sub title: Automakers, Ethyl Alcohol and Tetra-Ethyl Lead (edited for clarity by the author)
Hmmmm, IMHO, the oil industry pulled the wool over the government’s, and consumer’s eyes once, it certainly does make one curious about the so-called “gas shortage” of the mid 1970’s then, doesn’t it? And…today, the way prices fluctuate daily/weekly? Think there’s some secret wink & nod going on here?