Look, nobody is defending the FAA on this. GA pilots have wanted this for decades. There was a carve out because plane engines are expensive and old (the most

Look, nobody is defending the FAA on this. GA pilots have wanted this for decades. There was a carve out because plane engines are expensive and old (the most common engine today is a 50 year old model). Presumably it was expected that carve out would just be temporary while we worked on finding an off ramp to unleaded avgas. Nobody wanted the FAA to just ignore the problem for decades.