Since the banning of Leaded Petrol, has their been an improvement in peoples health?

Question

Have there been any specific before and after test, and what where the results. I have never seen any published.

Answer 1

All cars in Europe now run on lead-free petrol, thanks to the engine developments carried out there, which made lean-burn a possibility.

Europe, and especially British engine designers, have been at the cutting edge, and long before the introduction of catalytic converters, the old Lotus Cars (prior to new ownership) were showing how to achieve emissions standards without them.

I'm not sure that people are any healthier because lead has been eliminated from petrol, but any concentration of lead oxides in the human body is not a good idea and tends to build up as time goes on. Eliminating any source of lead is a good idea, if only as a precautionary measure, and they've done something similar with lead being dumped in land-fill sites, which can then pollute ground-water and the drinking-water supplies.

Answer 2

There has been an improvement in the health of the public since the restrictions on leaded gasoline were put into effect. Try asking the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Environmental Defense Fund or the Sierra Club. They can tell you where to find the data that indicates this.

Answer 3

Leaded Gas is only banned in the US. Almost everywhere else in the world still uses gas with tetra-ethyl lead added, including wealthy countries like the E.U.

I would be all for a ban of eliminating leaded gas additives from gas with the USA leading the charge. We should sell our technology to countries for the elimination of this deadly substance.