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In 1924, New York City's Medical Examiner, after studying poisoning at the plant manufacturing it, campaigned to have tetraethyl lead removed from gasoline. He failed. Suppose instead, he had succeeded.
What would the effect of the removal have been on society? On the outcome of WW2, if any?
Would car companies have had to develop better cylinder heads, frex, to cope with low octane gas? Would oil companies have had to develop ethanol blending? Would water or methanol or nitrous injection have become commonplace?
Would crime have gone down?
Would the 1950s panic over kids, crime, & comics have been butterflied away?
Or would nothing much change?
(Will nobody care about this thread, either? *sigh*)