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> There's a lot of examples of that, like it still being called Unleaded Gas despite it having been so by default for how many decades? Depending on where you
by seritools 2y ago
> There's a lot of examples of that, like it still being called Unleaded Gas despite it having been so by default for how many decades?
Depending on where you live, about 0.35 decades?
> On 30 August 2021 the United Nations Environment Programme announced that leaded gasoline had been eliminated. The final stocks of the product were used up in Algeria, which had continued to produce leaded gasoline until July 2021.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#Modern_findings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead#Modern_findings
- OJFord 2y agoThat's interesting, but obviously they meant 'in places where it has been banned a long time', there being countries where that's not the case doesn't stop it being an example of this, that terminology/marketing sticks around outliving a point it might've been making. The EU (incl. UK at the time) banned it 2.4 decades ago.
- Suppafly 2y ago> On 30 August 2021 the United Nations Environment Programme announced that leaded gasoline had been eliminated. Basic availability of leaded is unrelated to how long unleaded has been the default.