On Dec 24, 1997 09:34am, BOB RUDOLPH wrote to RICH WILLBANKS:
 RW>> You're wrong.  Unleaded gas was mandated to reduce the
 RW>> amount of lead in the environment.  There were studies
 RW>> that showed the soil near heavily traveled roadways had
 RW>> a high lead content.  And we all know that kids and
 RW>> soil tend to mix ok but kids and lead don't.
 BR>    That's what the tree-huggers would have you to believe - but there
 BR>    was research on lead-free gas bach in the 60's because catalysts
 BR>    were coming - and lead trashed them.  It's more a consequence of
 BR>    pollution standards having been reduced to the point that catalysts
 BR>    were the only way to get the emissions desired (I know, Honda can di
 BR>    it without catalysts, but that involves ENGINEERING....) at a
 BR>    moderate cost.
 BR>    2 tanks of leaded gas will reduce to useless catalytic converters.
And clog the honeycomb or collapse the screen (depending on the construction)
and cause the exhaust to be plugged.  Which creates yet another series of 
motor
problems.
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