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Old April 19th 07, 06:09 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.student
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Default Cost of gas is beginning to hurt

On Apr 18, 9:06 am, Paul kgyy wrote:
I'm fortunate in not having to own a car.

What's kinda weird to me is the tendency to put ever larger engines in
4-place aircraft.


What's really strange is all those new 4 seaters are designed with
engine requiring 100LL, instead of 91/96.

The oil industry is completely ready to supply unleaded avgas with
similar AKI of 91/96 leaded avgas, which would be basically straight
premium autofuel. Such fuel can easily knock $1 off a gallon in
price, and more so in the future as the cost of distributing the
leaded fuel continues to rise because it can't use pipelines.