But you still didn't put Thomas Midgley, Jr. on the list. If not for him, we'd have switch away from pure gasoline to ethanol in the 30s. How much modern war could have been averted if the industrialized world wasn't as dependent upon oil? His invention of Tetraethyl lead additives poisoned the atmosphere that we're still trying to recover from. And the cloroflurocarbons he invented have been even more harmful.
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