To add to my previous post, here's some effects which I think would surface:
- In coal-mining countries less unemployment in coal-mining areas. Coal would be still sought for Fischer-Tropsch and also for fuel usage more extensively.
- In environment there will be dramatically less tetra-ethyl lead with all it's unfortunate consequences
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetra-ethyl_lead
- Much less deaths and environmental poisoning due to particulate matter, as there will be less fuel burning, it will be more concentrated and thus easier to clean up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particulate
- More nuclear accidents for sure, but I'm fairly sure in TTL they would be compared to normal industrial accidents (for example, death tolls in coal mining were and still are in some countries excessive. In China alone, according to official statistics (which probably don't tell the truth) 3000 coal miners died in accidents in 2008 with over 250 000 deaths since 1949. Compared to that record even Chernobyl's worst effect calculations are simply minuscule.
- In coal-mining countries less unemployment in coal-mining areas. Coal would be still sought for Fischer-Tropsch and also for fuel usage more extensively.
- In environment there will be dramatically less tetra-ethyl lead with all it's unfortunate consequences
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetra-ethyl_lead
- Much less deaths and environmental poisoning due to particulate matter, as there will be less fuel burning, it will be more concentrated and thus easier to clean up
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particulate
- More nuclear accidents for sure, but I'm fairly sure in TTL they would be compared to normal industrial accidents (for example, death tolls in coal mining were and still are in some countries excessive. In China alone, according to official statistics (which probably don't tell the truth) 3000 coal miners died in accidents in 2008 with over 250 000 deaths since 1949. Compared to that record even Chernobyl's worst effect calculations are simply minuscule.