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www.FL UORIDE-CLASS A CTION.COM <br /> James@Fluoride-Class-Action.com <br /> THE STORY OF TETRAETHYL LEAD <br /> August 17, 2011 <br /> Mayor Ray Stephanson <br /> Everett City Council <br /> 3002 Wetmore Ave <br /> Everett, WA 98201 <br /> Everett should put an immediate moratorium on adding silicofluoride scrubber <br /> liquor toxic waste to our drinking water. We have pointed out that it contains lead and <br /> arsenic, that it reduces tooth decay only slightly if at all, that it denatures proteins <br /> and interferes with enzymatic functioning, and that it causes dental fluorosis and <br /> many other maladies. Today I change subjects slightly and tell the story of tetraethyl <br /> lead. I do so because its story is so similar to the fluoridation story. In both cases <br /> chemical companies lied and are lying to increase profits. <br /> In the 1920s ethyl alcohol was being mixed with gasoline to prevent engines <br /> from knock or pinging. It worked fine. Then industry discovered tetraethyl lead. <br /> Tetraethyl lead had some minor advantages [it is still used in piston aircraft], but it <br /> was poisonous. There was more money to be made with tetraethyl lead, so captains of <br /> industry manipulated government to allow its use. (Robert Kehoe of the Kettering <br /> Laboratories promoted both tetraethyl lead and fluoride. Tetraethyl lead was phased <br /> out starting in 1973. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=- <br /> 4315996929746966653; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiknock agent) <br /> "Ethyl brand leaded gasoline -- tetra-ethyl lead ... one of the world's greatest <br /> environmental disasters. [W]hole nations were poisoned. General Motors, Standard Oil <br /> and the Ethyl Corp. claimed there were no alternatives .... But there were alternatives. <br /> ... Three grams of tetra ethyl lead [or] 15 percent ethyl alcohol [CH3-CH2-OH] both <br /> improved a fuel's power [equally well]. [Tetraethyl lead] was cheap, but it was a well <br /> known poison. ...Just after World War I, American engineers made their choice [for <br /> tetraethyl lead]. (Putting profit above public health was nothing new for American <br /> industry, but it had never been done on such a massive scale and with such deadly <br /> results..." http://www.radford.edu/-wkovarik/ethylwar/) <br /> "Leaded gasoline created enormous profits ... at the expense of the health of the <br /> many. The [story] shows what can happen when the precautionary principle is <br /> ignored. ..." http://www.radford.edu/-wkovarik/papers/ethylconflict.html) <br /> The point of my story is this: Everett City fathers should quit being naive. <br /> Big chemical companies will lie to you to maximize profits. You have been scammed <br /> and defrauded into buying and injecting silicofluorides into our and your water. It is <br /> time for a moratorium. It is also time for this issue to be on the regular agenda. <br /> To make it easy to follow links, this letter is posted at: http://fluoride-class- <br /> action.com/wp-content/uploads/j rdeal-everett-city-council-the-story-of-tetraethyl- <br /> lead-8-17-11.doc <br />