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How do you feel about leaded gas?
by dymk 4y ago
How do you feel about leaded gas?
- nordsieck 4y ago> How do you feel about leaded gas? I think it should be banned. Sadly, aviation has enough political muscle that they're still allowed to use it. Which is amazing to me, given lead's extremely harmful effects.
- cypress66 4y agoDo you really think the people flying their small cessna with 100LL have so much political muscle? I strongly doubt so.
- jeffbee 4y agoIt's not the pilots alone, it is also the piece-of-shit-airplane industry which employs a handful of people here and there, enough to have a little suction in Congress.
- jabl 4y agoAlso GA is, in the end, a relatively small-scale activity, so leaded avgas isn't much of a public health hazard like leaded automotive gas was back in the day. More of an occupational hazard for people working on and flying those planes, and higher maintenance requirement on the engines. Hopefully they can manage to roll out G100UL at scale so 100LL can finally die. And then that final TEL plant on the planet can be shut down for good.
- r00fus 4y agoLet's not forget those small airports where nearby residents are at higher risk due to leaded avgas. That's why small airports have been forced to close. Get rid of leaded avgas and we can have less municipal airports closures.
- slackdog 4y agoThe general aviation industry is protected because it's part of the pilot training pipeline, and that is important because airplanes (both commercial and military) have a great deal of importance to governments. About 5% of the American GDP is attributed to commercial aviation. Compare that figure to the number of deaths caused by leaded avgas, and you don't need conspiracy theories to explain the outcome.
- outworlder 4y ago> Sadly, aviation has enough political muscle that they're still allowed to use it. Does it? GA is a shadow of its former self. There's already a substitute. But it's precisely how small general aviation has become that's stifling the transition. The volume of avgas made today is already pretty small, compared to other gas users, and there's ony a handful of plants that can make it. Then there's all the small airfields with existing avgas pumps. Without a big push, it will take time. The fastest way would be with a carrot; the stick can come later.
- kragen 4y agoleaded gas should be limited to extremely low-volume applications, because it's enormously harmful this regulation is more like banning unleaded gas
- hadlock 4y agoThere are better octane boosters, the only reason lead was used was because it was marginally cheaper.
- dymk 4y agoBut it's not like unleaded gas. Evidence has been mounting that PFAS are the modern 21st century's lead, hence bans like this.
- kragen 4y agoprivacy invasion and this kind of discourse are the 21st century's lead there are pfas that are pretty bad but the refrigerants in question are not among them
- DoneWithAllThat 4y agoSnark doesn’t do anything but virtue signal.
- kragen 4y agoi think it's a reasonable question directed at clarifying their understanding of my position or anyway a person who wanted to clarify their understanding of my position could very reasonably ask that question