Lead in petrol

[Wilko220]

Interesting and vaguely on-topic article about the removal of lead from petrol and the (possible) effect on the crime rate...

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27067615

 

Comes with a bonus "what's the car" test.

 

[Richard]

Peugeot 104.

[MrSteve]

Looks like a very late 70's Pug 304. I guess someone else can confirm if it is a berline or a break...

[red5]

Looks like another rehash - it was well known that the added 'lead' was hugely harmful at its introduction.

 

And in a pedantic mood - 'unleaded' actually mean 'no added lead compounds'.

 

I'd go with 304?

[HillmanImp]

Its a 104 methinks. 

 

*EDIT*

 

I would like to revise my statement to that it is a 304 Estate.

 

[chaseracer]

304 break.

 

Shorter rear overhang than any of the other models.  

 

 

 

 

[laser wheels]

In 1990 Marathon became snickers. Just saying ...

[inconsistant]

Lead? A harmful neurotoxin? No way. According to the Lead Sheet Association, lead has excellent environmental credentials:

 

 

...and I trust them like I trust any trade association trying to promote the use of one product /service over another.

 

 

Also, asbestos is fine too, just don't eat too much of it.

 

[vulgalour]

OMGHGFMPV?

[AlabamaShrimp]

Also, what's this?

 

That's called a cold day....

[richardmorris]

BBC website is advertising the story with an Austin Cambridge.

[seacow]

That's called a cold day....

That's one of those Mazda things isn't it?

[Wilko220]

That's one of those Mazda things isn't it?

 

Seems that way. Looks like a horror.

 

[Squire_Dawson]

We still have lead water piping to our house. None of us has violently assaulted anybody yet.

[Barry Cade]

We still have lead water piping to our house. None of us has violently assaulted anybody yet.

You'll be OK as long as you don't go into the dining room with Professor Plum.

[MrDuke]

So as their 'header' picture, they chose a car that almost definitely never ran on anything but unleaded. Top marks, BBC researchers.

[Sudsprint]

We still have lead water piping to our house. None of us has violently assaulted anybody yet.

 

That is only because one of you has yet to remove that length of lead pipe to use as a weapon

[forddeliveryboy]

All the stories of benzene danger (in unleaded petrol), heavy metal dust from cats and so on will start to appear once the swing to EVs starts to take place but before tax is switched onto EV leccy. You rarely hear big scare stories in the mainstream media about huge dangers in things currently in widespread use. It's interesting to see the 'news' in other countries - Ireland and Scandinavia are much better informed of the ticking time boom at our Sellafield. We've paid the Irish off, those pesky Scandies are much more troublesome. You go to Germany and see how the UK economy is viewed with disbelief, relying on continually inflating house prices and government bribes/sticks to keep paying them.

 

I think that lead/crime graph also matches other things, like computer games followed by internet.