asa wrote:Do you think all these dumbass hyperbolic threads you make really effect change?
Hyperbole is unnecessary and counterproductive, as is name-calling. Please, let's not have another locked thread.
Banning the sale of 100ll, as Santa Clara County has done, has a real impact on us. EPA's proposed endangerment finding is a move towards a nationwide ban on 100ll. If that happens before unleaded 100 octane fuel is available, my airplane will be grounded, and so will a lot of others.
Grounding high performance aircraft engines would have impacts on flight training, maintenance facilities, and the level of GA activity. We don't know what the cost of unleaded 100 octane will be, nor is there a solid timeframe for availability. There is also the collateral damage that is being done to GA due to the politicization and fear-mongering that is being done in the name of the children. We do not want GA to become the battleground in class warfare. (And if you think that is hyperbole, then read this:
https://sanjosespotlight.com/op-ed-san-jose-can-reckon-with-and-heal-the-damage-of-redlining-and-racism/.)
If you read the EPA's documents, you'll see that they found airborne lead concentrations that exceed their standards at only two of seventeen airports -- San Carlos and McClellan Palomar, and that everything else in their endangerment finding is based on statistical modeling of what
might exist at 13,000 other airports based on that data. What the EPA report fails to mention is that the sampling they did at San Carlos and Palomar violated their own air testing protocols and the air monitor manufacturer's instructions for proper sampling because
EPA put the monitors inside the fence at the runup areas--where
no people are exposed. If you put air monitors right behind the tailpipe of engines burning 100ll, you can expect to detect lead. EPA is supposed to measure the quality of "ambient air," which is air in places with people breathing the air.
So, bottom line, the proposed Endangerment Finding is based on statistical modeling that is based on air sampling at 17 airports, where the only two samples that exceeded EPA air quality standards were samples that should have been thrown out.
Understanding the data, methodology, and politics is a prerequisite to any possibility of having a voice and influence. The ship has already sailed on keeping 100ll.
The only place where we may still be able to influence is on the timing of the transition. On that, it seems the Alphabet groups agree. So, there is a point to understanding the facts and science, and pushing back on hysteria.
My $.02
CAVU
