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New Jersey Sues Gas Stations Accused Of Knowingly Selling Leaded AvGas
Motorists Thought They Were Filling Up With Unleaded Gasoline, Attorney For Stations Says They Were Not Aware (www.aero-news.net) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
The car owners should've been surprised by the higher performance. Kinda like pumping racing fuel into your tank at half price.
We live in a place where anyone can sue anyone. A one sided and poorly written article is not a conviction only an indictment. Too bad no one will follow this up after the court action and the man in the black robe decides. After having been in the specialized petroleum transportation business for a few years, 50 in all, I am familiar enough with the bills of lading and invoices issued by the refineries and terminals to tell you if there is no evidence of a collusive agreement to ship and receive the avgas the gas station or convenience store would have no way of knowing what was being transferred to their tank(s). I know of some cases where 100 0ct avgas is used for automobile racing fuel, but there is no advantage to anyone to sell it as street motor gasoline.
I think the State looses this one, but the retail distributors have to defend themselves at who knows what cost., probably in excess of $10,000.
I think the State looses this one, but the retail distributors have to defend themselves at who knows what cost., probably in excess of $10,000.
Folks, leaded av-gas not only fouls oxygen sensors, it also fouls catalytic converters, rendering them useless. It only takes one tankful to do that, hence the lawsuits. Would you really want to go back to burning leaded gas in cities? I think not, as the air is much cleaner now than it was in the 1960's and 1970's because of the conversion to no-lead. Because of this, I think Babis (below) is ranting about the wrong things.
This is total bunk! Only the empire of the EPA is upset due to their war on lead. As with most government empires, they are against anything we like or good for us. Lead is in gas for one reason. It increases octane and engine performance. Any motorist that was lucky enough to get some probably wondered why their car ran better. Maybe a smidgeon of life was taken off the Cat but that would be it. The EPA would like you to think the cars were running on lead bars and someone is now sure to die when in fact 100LL has much less lead than the old leaded mogas or racing fuel. $3.50/gal for $6/gal fuel was also a deal and nothing a gas station would knowingly do. Sadly, the EPA will probably demand that the station's tanks be scoured of every molecule of lead or replaced. This is in a state that is the land of toxic waste dumps. Clean up your backyard New Jersey before wasting money suing over a mistake that has run its coures. Don't expect that anyone not directly associated with aviation would know what "AVGAS" on a bill of lading stood for.
Minor corrections. 100LL (blue 100/115) has much less lead than the old 100 (green 100/130)avgas. It has way more lead than any auto gas ever had. Lead is used to increase octane, it however does not increase engine performance. Using a higher octane rated fuel than your engine requires does nothing except waste money. If an engine is properly tuned and only requires regular gas putting premium fuel in the tank will do nothing for performance. Higher octane fuel will withstand higher cylinder pressures before detonating making it necessary for higher performance engines, it its self does not increase performance, hardware changes do.
Thanks Tim. I'm sure you're right. My point is that a lot of cars, particularly the older ones, are driving around knocking because of the new octane claims on the ethanol fuel blends. You stop the knock, the engine performs better. You weren't with T.W. Smith Engines were you?
No relation to T.W.