A lot of our planes can actually use UL91. That Avgas is cheaper and, more importantly, is unleaded. But it is not available widely, because it takes another pump, tank and infrastructure. For me, it would be one way to go for airplanes which can not fly on Mogas but still want to go away from leaded fuel.
I know that there are still quite a few engines which can’t use UL91 but most of the smaller compression engines can and without any mod or STC. That is a distinctive advantage over Mogas.
Or you could recognise that all the scare stories about “Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming” are just plain wrong.
The simple facts are that:
1. since the 1970s global temperatures have risen, and yes I agree that most likely that SOME of the rise may be due to rising CO2 levels
2. but, the rate of rise is much slower than predicted by the hundreds of ‘climate models’
3. there has been no overall global increase in predicted expected catastrophes – droughts, fires, floods, hurricanes, climate induced migration, disease, countries sinking etc etc
4. on the other hand the increase in CO2 levels in the atmosphere has had VERY positive effects so far – increased plant growth, crop yields and extent of vegetation in marginal areas (eg the Sahel)
5. the cost of mitigating the possible future effects are MUCH lower than the cost of decarbonising
6. China is taking advantage of the West’s current climate stupidity to accelerate their growing economic relative strength and are laughing at us with no intention of crippling their own economies
7. Once governments truly start to take away such essentials and luxuries as gas fired home heating, cars that can make long trips and trucks that can haul loads, foreign holidays there will be a massive political backlash and new parties will rise to implement more sensible and sound policies
Happy to provide evidence for all the above when I have more time
Buckerfan wrote:
there will be a massive political backlash and new parties will rise to implement more sensible and sound policies
Or we will get more of what the US have: massively split population and contested elections.
And quite possibly the rise of parties which get more and more extreme on the opposing sides. I would not be surprised if the climate change politics may lead towards civil unrest or even civil war in some places.
Avweb has now commented on this.
https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/1000-landing-fee-proposed-for-massachusetts-private-aircraft
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Funny how governments exempt themselves from regulations they find burdensome (but want to inflict on everyone else).
This will never happen. As the first commentor to the Avweb article said “Of course sensible people will just avoid the state entirely”. The US is in the fortunate position of having so much business dependent on GA that users can talk with their wallets. One of the NE states, Vermont or New Hampshire, passed a tax law related to GA some years ago. Aviation businesses moved out of the state en-masse and GA traffic dropped dramatically. The law was quickly repealed, but the damage was done and it took quite a while for aviation to get back to “normal”.
chflyer wrote:
This will never happen.
I agree. Yet it is a wake up call to many who think types like that are limited to Europe.
Mooney_Driver wrote:
Yet it is a wake up call to many who think types like that are limited to Europe.
Nothing to wake up to. “Types like that” have always existed and are in no way limited to aviation. You just roll your eyes and move on.
(I recall a Swedish MP in the 1970s who wanted to outlaw parabolic antennas because satellite TV channels were not subject to Swedish legislation. People rolled their eyes and nothing more happened.)
