Fuels and Society: B. Sixty Years of Tetraethyllead - How the Best Known Poison on Earth Remained in the Gasoline Supply for Sixty Years
The Questions: How did lead compounds, whose extreme toxicity were known for more than a century before they were introduced into gasoline, become an accepted and everyday component of the fuels we use - and of the air we breathe and the ground upon which we walk?
Students will go through a series of units outlined in the concept map and end with a case discussion on how automakers, oil companies and the government might have better dealt with the issues of gasoline quality in the early 20th century.
