[oldbbsnickname]

TEL is incredibly bad stuff*, but it's rarely used in commercial flight operations as they predominantly use jet aircraft. Leaded avgas is completely unnecessary as non-TEL fuel formulations have been created and certified. The problem is they're not available anywhere, while leaded avgas is everywhere in GA. Municipalities should do like they did for leaded automotive gasoline: supersede commercial interests with public health regulatory ones and ban it. (The EPA only banned leaded automotive gasoline nationwide in 1996 after allowing 25 years for the phaseout.)

* In the same category of human harm as nerve agents, dioxin, and methylmercury.

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2021/july/27/ga...

https://www.epa.gov/archive/epa/aboutepa/epa-takes-final-ste...

[lazide]

The first general purpose non-TEL alternative was only certified last year. Before that, each variant had to be certified per-type, and then would need to be stocked everywhere. Which never was going to happen, and didn't.

Now they're going to ban leaded avgas, which should force the for adoption, since there IS now an approved general purpose alternative.