dewline: Three question marks representing puzzlement (Puzzlement 2)
On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams ([personal profile] dewline) wrote2014-07-26 02:28 pm

Gasoline Additives Question - For non-Canada/US friendlisters

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?

[identity profile] mcwetboy.livejournal.com 2014-07-26 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] dewline.livejournal.com 2014-07-26 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmm. Good to know this!

[identity profile] spross.livejournal.com 2014-07-27 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I recall hearing somewhere, that Leaded gas was still used in parts of Africa.

[identity profile] resonant.livejournal.com 2014-07-28 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
Just Algeria now, the rest of the countries have gotten rid of it.

[identity profile] resonant.livejournal.com 2014-07-28 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
TEL is still used in Algeria, Iraq, Yemen, Myanmar, North Korea, and Afghanistan.


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