> Rates of cancers etc are higher near military bases due to fuel handling incidents. Avgas is only used in piston engines, and the military mostly flies turbi

> Rates of cancers etc are higher near military bases due to fuel handling incidents. Avgas is only used in piston engines, and the military mostly flies turbines, which use ordinary jet fuel (which does not contain lead). They have some, but I think if you told the military "jets and turboprops only" it wouldn't be a big problem. (Not sure how they would train new pilots, however.) If you're looking for disease/damage from lead in avgas, you want to find a little airport in the middle of nowhere that has a really good restaurant on the field ;) https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/avgas https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/avgas > I am guessing it's still allowed because people who fly planes can afford to lobby. People that fly piston engines do not have any money to lobby. To me it feels very similar to why software engineers pay so much tax -- we get paid just enough to be dinged by things like the AMT, but not enough to afford lobbyists.