AngryUndead wrote:
weedjedi wrote:
No the ppl that are crying are the fools with F-250's that run on unleaded gas,which is more than you'd think....
I'll supose you mean "Regular Unleaded" and not just unleaded. IIRC no cars need lead fuel. Some airplanes need Low Lead. As in 110LL (110 Octane, Low Lead). Not sure about boats.
That's not even completely correct either. It's just plain "regular". "unleaded" gas is gas with no/low lead content. Gas with lead is/was typically called "regular" (vs "unleaded" and "premium unleaded"). Some older engines do need the lead content, but if you own an older car/plane that does, you'll know it, and you'll buy lead additives for the gas.
Sometime about 15-20 years ago, most pumps replaced their "regular" gas with "mid-grade unleaded", leaving a standard three pump station with "regular", "mid-grade", and "premium", all of which are unleaded.
The bizarre part about the original statement is that not only is it completely irrelevant if he was correct (leaded fuel typically was cheaper then unleaded, not the other way around), but "regular" as used today (meaning "regular unleaded", the lowest octane unleaded gas at the station) is also the cheapest of the three standard unleaded grades of gasoline sold.
If he had said something like "The people who'll really be crying are those with bigger engines that require premium gasoline to run properly", he would have been on the money. But he got pretty much every single thing backwards...