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<blockquote data-quote="Tom Gaynor" data-source="post: 22563" data-attributes="member: 4034"><p>Lean burn engines DID make catalytic converters unnecessary. The problem was that only Honda had them. (They're the models with two C's in the model name.) GM did not. They did however own Johnson and Mathey who MADE CC's, so all they had to do was invent a health / green reason for lead-free fuel, since TEL - tetra-ethyll-lead (the company that made it was owned by GM, Dupont, and Exxon) poisoned CC's in a few hundred miles. It was (and is) harmless to humans once passed through an engine. With the cooperation of governments like that of the UK, it was surprisingly easy.</p><p>Here the government published graphs showing the drop in atmospheric lead after lead-free was introduced, thus making future generations safe. What they didn't show was that the slope of the graph hadn't changed since about 1935 when lead-free paint was being phased in and lead water pipes were being phased out, and that the elimination of TEL made not a blind bit of difference.</p><p>(All of this is from published material. You might care to wonder what the driver behind "bio-fuel" is. Its manufacture energy cost (mostly fertilisers and diesel) is about four times that of petrol and it's going to save the planet? Running cars on vodka? Really?)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom Gaynor, post: 22563, member: 4034"] Lean burn engines DID make catalytic converters unnecessary. The problem was that only Honda had them. (They're the models with two C's in the model name.) GM did not. They did however own Johnson and Mathey who MADE CC's, so all they had to do was invent a health / green reason for lead-free fuel, since TEL - tetra-ethyll-lead (the company that made it was owned by GM, Dupont, and Exxon) poisoned CC's in a few hundred miles. It was (and is) harmless to humans once passed through an engine. With the cooperation of governments like that of the UK, it was surprisingly easy. Here the government published graphs showing the drop in atmospheric lead after lead-free was introduced, thus making future generations safe. What they didn't show was that the slope of the graph hadn't changed since about 1935 when lead-free paint was being phased in and lead water pipes were being phased out, and that the elimination of TEL made not a blind bit of difference. (All of this is from published material. You might care to wonder what the driver behind "bio-fuel" is. Its manufacture energy cost (mostly fertilisers and diesel) is about four times that of petrol and it's going to save the planet? Running cars on vodka? Really?) [/QUOTE]
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