I think the biggest possibility if someone does try to bring leaded gas back to trigger liberals is that it becomes "legal again" but is just not available anywhere. The possibility of a gas station selling leaded gas which almost instantly fucks up every single car that fuels up with it would be a nightmare for everyone involved.
Something I forgot to mention, the gas pump nozzles are legally defined in the US and the diameter of a leaded gas nozzle is larger than that of an unleaded nozzle. Sure, somebody could just using unleaded nozzle with leaded gas, but that would be a second thing that's illegal and would have to be changed... Assuming you could actually get someone to change the law specifically so that you could sell people more expensive gasoline which also destroys their car.
And the second thing that I entirely forgot to mention is it's entirely legal to sell leaded gas in the US right now and you could go buy it right now if you wanted to. What is banned is utilizing leaded gas in a road vehicle operated on public roads (because it is incompatible with legally mandatory catalytic converters). You can continue to use it for aviation, off-road dirt bikes or quads, farm equipment, Marine engines, racing cars not destined for public roads, generators, or really any other thing that isn't intended to be a road vehicle... But of course it's not widely available because these are all fringe uses and literally the only scenario where it's not actively worse and more expensive than the alternatives is in small prop aviation. Today, you can legally go to an airport or some drag strips and purchase good old 100LL, just like in the 70s... For $6-8 a gallon. The additives genuinely are that much more expensive, the taxes on avgas are cheaper than road fuel.
Yep, strangely one of the rare places where a market-based solution would come to the same answer as everyone else. Literally nobody involved would want to deal with the fallout of actually going through with it, so if somebody really wanted it sold, it would have to be something that they made mandatory to sell, which would likely result in lawsuits from automakers and gas stations who themselves don't want to be sued, and then no one would end up wanting to buy it because it's three times the price of regular gasoline and the only "coal rolling" you could do with it is in the tow truck bringing your ass straight into the shop to buy a new catalytic converter after you broke your car and now it won't turn on anymore.
I think the biggest possibility if someone does try to bring leaded gas back to trigger liberals is that it becomes "legal again" but is just not available anywhere. The possibility of a gas station selling leaded gas which almost instantly fucks up every single car that fuels up with it would be a nightmare for everyone involved.
Something I forgot to mention, the gas pump nozzles are legally defined in the US and the diameter of a leaded gas nozzle is larger than that of an unleaded nozzle. Sure, somebody could just using unleaded nozzle with leaded gas, but that would be a second thing that's illegal and would have to be changed... Assuming you could actually get someone to change the law specifically so that you could sell people more expensive gasoline which also destroys their car.
And the second thing that I entirely forgot to mention is it's entirely legal to sell leaded gas in the US right now and you could go buy it right now if you wanted to. What is banned is utilizing leaded gas in a road vehicle operated on public roads (because it is incompatible with legally mandatory catalytic converters). You can continue to use it for aviation, off-road dirt bikes or quads, farm equipment, Marine engines, racing cars not destined for public roads, generators, or really any other thing that isn't intended to be a road vehicle... But of course it's not widely available because these are all fringe uses and literally the only scenario where it's not actively worse and more expensive than the alternatives is in small prop aviation. Today, you can legally go to an airport or some drag strips and purchase good old 100LL, just like in the 70s... For $6-8 a gallon. The additives genuinely are that much more expensive, the taxes on avgas are cheaper than road fuel.
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Yep, strangely one of the rare places where a market-based solution would come to the same answer as everyone else. Literally nobody involved would want to deal with the fallout of actually going through with it, so if somebody really wanted it sold, it would have to be something that they made mandatory to sell, which would likely result in lawsuits from automakers and gas stations who themselves don't want to be sued, and then no one would end up wanting to buy it because it's three times the price of regular gasoline and the only "coal rolling" you could do with it is in the tow truck bringing your ass straight into the shop to buy a new catalytic converter after you broke your car and now it won't turn on anymore.