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I grew up, early years at least, in a world of “leaded” gasoline, where “ethyl” was what you wanted in your tank.  I remember (as a kid) unleaded gas coming in as a novelty, then as standard for vehicles, and finally the only thing out there for cars.<\/p>\n

Though a bit breathless in tone (though it’s hard to be sanguine about, well, lead<\/em>), this article charts the history of “ethyl” in US gasoline<\/a>.  Interesting stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I grew up, early years at least, in a world of “leaded” gasoline, where “ethyl” was what you wanted in your tank.  I remember (as a kid) unleaded gas…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,5,63,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-cars","category-environment","category-health","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10318,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/19\/its_de_natural.html","url_meta":{"origin":11930,"position":0},"title":"It’s De-Natural …","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 19-Feb-07 6:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"As we were setting up fondue pots, someone raised the question of \"What's Denatured Alcohol?\" Margie, our resident biologist, hemmed and hawed over broken rings and other O-chem bits, while...","rel":"","context":"In "Science & Nature"","block_context":{"text":"Science & Nature","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/science"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131453,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/07\/because-gasoline-will-always-be-cheap-right.html","url_meta":{"origin":11930,"position":1},"title":"Because gasoline will ALWAYS be cheap, right?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Sep-16 11:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Toyota is taking a serious hit on Prius sales in the US because American consumers are buying SUVs because gas prices are cheap and have always been cheap and will always be cheap.Our national attention span is, alas, pretty damned short. 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