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Started by Lisa
Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:00
Re: benzene
Author: Lisa
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:00
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 00:00
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"w w" <im1uponu@hotmail.com> wrote : >While looking for a newsgroup on >population control, I found your post >requesting info on benzene. >Benzene is a carcinogenic that causes >cancer systemically (anywhere in body), >it is dangerous to contact in any form. >It is prevalent anywhere petroleum >products are manufactured, such as >leakage into ground water, thereby >contaminating water supply. >I have extensive info on this topic >should you need more. >Why are you so interested? Does someone you know have cancer and do you >suspect benzene is the causative agent? Hello. Thank you for writing to me, and thank you again for your willingness to share your extensive info on the topic of Benzene contamination with me. My online enquiry about Benzene was prompted by someone building a gas station right next to a primary school building, which houses over one thousand little schoolchildren. At first I had only the fear of explosion (of the gas station) which could injured or killed the schoolchildren studying in a building next door, but when I was told that gasoline contains Benzene (among other toxic chemicals), and Benzene has been shown to cause various types of cancers, like Leukemia and bone marrow abnormalities, my concern regarding the case where someone building a gas station right next door to a school building only increases. Right now, I am trying to gather all types of evidences, from the explosive properties of gasoline (and cases of actual explosions of gas stations as references), to toxicological studies of gasoline - and all the chemical compounds that are found in gasoline - along with all the research data that have indicated that chemicals like Benzene causes cancers in human bodies. I am trying to gather all these information so that I can show them to the PTA of the school, the local council and all the related authorities who have granted approval for someone (I am still tracking the identity of the person) building the gas station. All I know now is the gas station is going to be a Shell gas station, and I have tried to obtain data from www.shell.com, regarding the chemical make-up of their gasoline, but so far they have stonewalled me. My concern is this - the students studying in that school building are LITTLE KIDS, and they have to spend up to 7 hours in and around that building _every_ school day, for at least six years of their lives. Children's body are not as strong as adults, they are more supcetable to all types of immunological diseases, and if gasoline somehow have negative effect in human beings, I am worried that some students may come down with some irrepairable ailment/diseases in the future. To summarize what I am doing: I am trying to stop the building of a gas station which is located right next to a school building, and I am trying to gather all the information which can show the danger of placing a gas station right next door to a school building, including the toxic and carcinogenic effect of chemicals like Benzene. Sir, I hope that you can help me, by providing me with whatever information that you have. The more info I have to backup my claim that gasoline station isn't a good neighbor to a school, the stronger case I can make. Would you help me, sir? I'd appreciate any and all help from anyone who cares. Thank you in advance. Best regards, Lisa PS. Have A Great Year In 2000 !! Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
Re: benzene
Author: MVCS
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 00:00
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Lisa <lisse@saintmail.net> wrote: >... >My online enquiry about Benzene was prompted by someone building a gas >station right next to a primary school building, which houses over one >thousand little schoolchildren. Health risks will be maximized by snorting or drinking gasoline. However, natural seeps of crude (some as light as "white gasoline") do indeed exist in many locations around the globe, none of which are likely to cause problems for you. The scenario about which you worry exists between these extrema (and towards the latter). Benzene is dangerous, but then so is standing in front of a moving train. http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/chemicals/chem_profiles/benzene/benzene.htm International standards and all the research indicate that there will be no problem for the school children, any more than for kids playing around, e.g., the Sespe Creek seeps in California. The 7 year old son of one of our friends died a HORRID death from A-plactic anemia due to benzene. He hated bugs and during the Texas summers was always spraying himself with OFF and other repellents. He had massive, direct exposure to benzene and benzene-related chemicals in the bug repellents. They lived in Texas city next to a gasoline refinery. It stank (and still does) all the time. But no other kids came down with A-plastic anemia. His siblings were and are just fine. So it was not the gasoline or the refinery or any of the other "hot-button" possibilities, although these provided ample cause for everyone to get into an uproar. It was OFF. So, the makers of OFF apparently changed their recipe because several people came down with the same or similar malady. It did not help our friends.... but I learned alot about what can and can not happen via exposure to toxic chemicals. >...but when I was told that gasoline contains Benzene (among other >toxic chemicals), and Benzene has been shown to cause various types of >cancers, like Leukemia and bone marrow abnormalities, my concern >regarding the case where someone building a gas station right next door >to a school building only increases. You'd thus expect that people working in and around gas stations would have a **MUCH** higher incidence of cancer and leukemia, etc. But that is not the case. People make a career out of tracking this sort of thing.... and no one has found any data to suggest a higher morbidity rate for people working at gas stations compared to other jobs. >.... I am trying to stop the building of > a gas station which is located right > next to a school building It passed whatever zoning laws are in effect for your area. Check with the county commissioners or whoever approved of the site. They had to run an environmental impact report. That report will contain all the data you need to either whip yourself into a real frenzy, or find the evil people responsible for building a gas station 6 inches from the noses of all the little kids in the school, or why it is OK to build gas stations 6 inches from the noses of little kids in schools, etc. While you are at it, pay attention to how far other sorts of businesses have to be from the school site as well. The presence of a bar or a strip joint within eye-shot of the school is IMO a far greater potential evil than a gas station (unless the station becomes the source of school-time candy, cokes, cigarettes, hard or soft porn, place to "hang-out", etc.).
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