I'll just Copy and Paste it, This is from CNN, which I assume got it from the White House or something.
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Thursday, December 07, 2006
EPA: Leaded gas may return, along with lower standards
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration is considering doing away with health standards that cut lead from gasoline, widely regarded as one of the nation's biggest clean-air accomplishments.The Environmental Protection Agency said this week that revoking those standards might be justified "given the significantly changed circumstances since lead was listed in 1976" as an air pollutant, claiming that concentrations of lead in the air have dropped more than 90 percent in the past 2 1/2 decades. Battery makers, lead smelters, refiners all have lobbied the administration to do away with the Clean Air Act limits.
But Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., the incoming chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform, called on the agency to "renounce this dangerous proposal immediately," because lead, a highly toxic element, can cause severe nerve damage, especially in children.
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So a quick summary. Since we instituted this law to reduce the amount of lead in the air, the amount of lead in the air has gone down. Thus, since it's obviously worked so well, at reducing health risk pollution, let's get rid of that law! Ya! Good plan Mr. Bush.
Although I'm strangely in favour of them removing that law. Let's just make sure Washington does it first, for a trial period, and hopefully they can all get sick from lead poisoning. Then maybe the Americans can replace them with better leadership (or maybe leave the White House empty. Then they couldn't screw everything up for the rest of us)
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I hate to state the obvious but it seems to me that the leadership of the US were mostly all children sensitive to nerve damage back when leaded gas was common.....
This is the kind of thinking that has become standard fare for American leadership. What it really illustrates is how dangerous it is to have any sort of lobby that is not controlled by the interest in the public good.
I'm not sure if the American people have enough brain cells and collective will to wake up in time to avoid being destroyed by their own corporate lobbies or not. I guess only time will tell.
Maybe the next Republican President will be a Dwight Eisenhower instead of a Richard Nixon or Bush/Cheney style Neo-Con.
Stranger things have happened.
Interestingly enough both the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and the Clean Water Act were created during Nixon's term.
That is very interesting.
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