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It's the lead they used to put in gas that was the real problem. Up until a few decades ago basically everyone was regularly exposed to unhealthy levels of environmental lead because of leaded gas. It mostly has an impact on children so it's really just the Boomers and older GenX who grew up exposed that are still around with lead-addled brains, instead of all of society like it used to be before the switch to unleaded gas.
People always think that if you invent a Time Machine you should kill Hitler when he was a kid. Screw that, the man we really need to kill as a kid is Thomas Midgley Jr.. Dude invented both Tetraethyllead and CFCs.
Lead gas is also still in use! There are lots of old planes that take higher octane gas, and because rich people tend to own planes, the government allows aviation fuel to still have lead, leading to poisoning children that happen to live downwind general aviation airports. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/20/aviation-lead-fuel-00081641
Im still in favor of shooting Woodrow Wilson with an anti-material rifle, that or convince the republican national convention to choose Roosevelt.
Batman had the right idea.
When regular leaded gas was banned in my country I was nearly 6, 14 when the last leaded high-octane gas was sold...
I looked up the US for reference... to find 1996 as the year leaded gas was finally banned.
So I still don't believe environment-induced brain damage is an excuse.
It's not exactly an excuse but it does explain certain things. For example, the massive drop in violent crimes that began after kids stopped growing up with too much lead in their brains.
The US banned leaded gas for all cars on the road in 1996 but we phased it out much earlier. The Clean air act was passed in 1970 which created the EPA. The EPA set standards on how much carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, and hydrocarbons cars could have in their exhaust. To meet those standards automakers had to use catalytic converters and leaded gas destroys catalytic converters quickly. Because of this no new car introduced in the US since 1975 has used leaded gas. It was banned about 20 years later to let the old cars be operated through their normal lifecycle. We still use lead on n some aviation fuel.
For most of that 20 year transition, gas stations had a choice of leaded or unleaded gas. I got my license in ‘82, and never drove a vehicle that still used leaded gas