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Aviation fuel (like personal sized planes) is still leaded because it makes the engine more reliable.
That's disturbing
Small aircraft make up a very tiny fraction of gasoline consumption and an engine failure is a lot more serious for them than a car. It's really only a problem if you spend a lot of time hanging around airports.
There's is no am amount of lead that is safe in your system.
That is still being used just because the alternative is cheaper is still disturbing to me.
There are many many small communities that can only be serviced by small plane. They are the most at risk from this and the least able to deal with it.
It is disturbing and I hate it. "It's only a little" isn't a good enough argument. Sorry dude you will need a better rational for me to get over that
"It's only a little" is perfectly reasonable when 'a little' is below the threshold of doing harm. For example, mercury compounds are still used in medicine because the risk of harm is negligible at the concentrations it is used. Flourine is cartoonishly dangerous but it is in water and toothpaste.
I just read a post about lead contaminates in protein powder. Apparently there is no safe threshold for lead. It contaminates everything.
Perhaps that infusion is wrong. But still burning lead saves money, that's the only reason. There are other ways of getting the same result without putting it into the environment. And if that is true that there is no safe threshold for lead then it's so a problem.
So yes a little is still bad and we can do better