Gasoline Additives Question - For non-Canada/US friendlisters

[dewline]

Do any of you know if gasoline or similar fuels are still being sold with lead additives of any sort anywhere outside of the US and Canada?

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[mcwetboy.livejournal.com]

It's apparently still used in some grades of avgas, an aviation fuel used in internal combustion engines (as opposed to jets and turbines).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avgas#Phase-out_of_leaded_aviation_gasoline

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Good to know this!

[spross.livejournal.com]

I recall hearing somewhere, that Leaded gas was still used in parts of Africa.

[resonant.livejournal.com]

Just Algeria now, the rest of the countries have gotten rid of it.

[resonant.livejournal.com]

TEL is still used in Algeria, Iraq, Yemen, Myanmar, North Korea, and Afghanistan.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead