http://waxman.house.gov/sites/waxman.house.gov/files/documents/UploadedFiles/Letter%20to%20FAA%20on%20Leaded%20AvGas%2010-23-12.pdf

Glad someone is taking notice, but the debate isn't that simple as we all know. The turbocharged twin charters and light cargo and life flights are still going to burn 100LL.

Sure would be nice to see more clear 91/92UL available on the field though. I always wondered why more smaller fields don't store it. Twin Oaks, here in the Portland area for instance; Most of their fuel sales are for the flight school and hobbyist guys like me. Why not offer mogas? It's probably the cost involved with getting another tank/pump installed, right? There's no clear profit to be made by offering a different fuel, so that investment is lost. They already have the best price in the area on 100LL generally, so it's not they'll attract more fuel buyers.

What I hope this congressman's appeal does, if anything, is to battle the ethanol mandate by creating another case for clear gas, because without FAA funds earmarked for fuel dispensing equipment, few of the places that want this most will implement it.

Cool, if I burn auto gas, I will burn HALF as much per hour!!!

Sad, how many uninformed people will read this and figure it is true?

I've never been impressed by Waxman, even less so now.

Live2aviate wrote:Cool, if I burn auto gas, I will burn HALF as much per hour!!!

Yeah...

Wildly erroneous claims aside, at least someone is noticing the need for auto gas availability on the field. I'd rather have representatives barking up this tree than simply trying to eliminate avgas with no viable alternatives, even if it's part of a witch hunt for lead pollution.

Just remember, the VanGuard Squadron from Tea SD will keep humming along in their IO-320 Lycomings with 10 to 1 compression ratio even when 100LL is gone. So will Brazil and a few others in this country with unclear unleaded auto fuel.

This is from Supercub---a guy from Sweden

I run on a fuel completely without lead, that I think exist only in Europe, and have done so for many years. http://www.hjelmco.com/default.asp
/Tomas