Posted on 09/26/2024 6:42:59 AM PDT by eyeamok
“She’s thinking with her heart and not her brain,” said aviation manufacturing consultant Gerald Adler to the Globe on Monday. “Unleaded fuel was approved for piston-engine planes in 2022, but the problem is that a lot of engines are not rated for unleaded fuels. Could they run on it? Yes. But the problem comes with testing. Not all have been tested with it properly and still need leaded av gas. And there is no way that testing of all relevant engines can be done by 2031. More time is needed. Whoever came up with this bill just doesn’t realize the nuts and bolts behind this.
(Excerpt) Read more at californiaglobe.com ...
He opposed fuel trucks going to a work sight, but then it was found he had HIS OWN fuel tanks already full.
Cool! no more flights in or out of california.
Perhaps because California is the State which receives the largest amount of revenue from Federal spending.
—”Mine didn’t.”
My stuff was also OK, even my racing bikes.
Leaded gasoline was still for sale until the late 1990s.
Unfortunately, Avation gas still has lead and should have been long gone with leaded automotive gas.
Our young granddaughter’s blood tested high for lead.
The drinking water was tested, and the house was checked for lead paint...
The house is near a local airport, and that is the problem.
They moved, after many improvements on the house, I liked that house and still drive past when in the area.
Somewhere in the mid-1990s, the shite hit the fan; MTBE!
The fuel tank on my snowblower started to delaminate from the MTBE CRAP!
100LL still has quite a bit of lead in it. The dangers of running automotive gas in a piston airplane is the danger to the valve train and a loss of power. 87 octane pump gas won't make the power of 100LL. Your 180 horsepower Lycoming engine won't be making 180 HP once you re-tune it for 87 octane automotive gas.
Destroying people’s property and livelihoods is a feature to environmentalists. They get their jollies every time it happens.
Maybe they can get by without propane, but let's see how long they last without air travel.
He’s just showing his Marxist POS side….is all. Nothing new.
Will this pass court review based on interstate commerce clause?
Jet fuel is. Piston engines use high octane gas
Thanks. I forgot. My assumption was jets, forgetting that a large number of small planes in wide use do have piston engines.
Historic piston-driven aircraft will vanish from the skies of California. In the Southland, a squadron of AT-6 Mosquitoes does flyovers at patriotic and sporting events, and there is also a C-47 that also does flyovers. At the Chino Airport, there is a sizable collection of WWII aircraft, some that can still fly. But thanks to Newscum, they will fly no more.
Unless you added Marvel Mystery Oil to your gas tank. I kept a 1967 Ford 352ci truck running for a decade using top oil.
The insanity continues in Kommiefornia - you can get an FAA permit to use unleaded in small planes though.
“Isn’t tetraethyl lead added to gasoline to increase its octane rating, which allows a higher compression ratio, which results in a more efficient engine?
If an existing engine is modified to take unleaded fuel, does it become a less efficient engine? Possibly the modification would require lowering the compression ratio to prevent knock.”
Back over 100 years ago they chose lead as it was cheap and proprietary. Octane rating of ethanol is about 109. E85 is high octane!
My 5.0 runs 11.5 to one plus about 10# of boost. E85 would allow an increase in boost plus about 100 more hp.
On cruise control and level road I get 28 mpg at 65 mph.
Jet aircraft use jet fuel, basically kerosene as others have stated. This Newsom foolishness outlaws leaded aviation gasoline used in piston aircraft engines. It mostly impacts the general aviation (GA) community flying small aircraft like Cessna’s, etc.
CA has been trying to run GA out of a number of airports for decades, because certain politicians can get a pay off for closing municipal airports and selling the land for developers to build housing.
Ban Newsome.
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“Octane rating of ethanol is about 109. E85 is high octane!”
Isn’t the drawback of alcohol, aside from collecting water, that it has a lower energy density — you need a bigger tank and more pounds of fuel to go for a given distance?
Alcohol has oxygen in the molecule. Makes for a clean flame but why carry oxygen in the tank when you can get it from the air?
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