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by striking 295 days ago
When you need a lot of lead (enough to build plumbing for a neighborhood), you probably want to source it locally. When "1 part TEL to 1300 parts gasoline by weight is sufficient to suppress detonation",[1] you can source the lead from just about anywhere and ship it with the fuel.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead