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I could imagine Acquired doing a podcast on Ethyl Corporation gushing about how wonderful ut is.

“Yeah lead is a great business to be in. Let’s do a bull and bear analysis going forward.”

My cynicism is burnt in at this point. You only have to look at how willingly people are to keep pushing fossil fuels.

I work for the company that was Ethyl and we have old "propaganda posters" touting the benefits of tetraethyllead on the walls of the administration building at the location where TEL was produced. They're curios from another time and hung on the walls as a reminder that acceptable science, norms, and requirements change over time. We're not the company we once were, but the past is worthy of remembrance--if only so the mistakes thereof are not repeated.

Harsh but accurate.

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