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Leaded gasoline[edit]

Not sure which country you are from. You mentioned "gasoline" rather than "petrol" so I am assuming you are from Canada or the US - please correct me if I am wrong. Anyway, your edit summary at Tetraethyllead#Phaseout_and_ban says lead was only phased out in the US after 1975 when catalytic convertors were introduced (lead is bad in cats). In my country (Australia), leaded petrol was phased out in the early 2000s. So a blanket statement like "All gasoline was leaded in 1962" is certainly not true in international context and also not true for the US specifically. Nevertheless, your change from "leaded" to "premium" is acceptable, even if the reasoning wasn't.  Stepho  talk  23:46, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There must be a glitch in Wikipedia. I did not make any edits to Tetraethyllead#Phaseout_and_ban and I did not even look up that topic in Wikipedia. The edit I did make was in Ford small block engine (221 section). Before my edit it read: "In stock form, it used a two-barrel carburetor and a compression ratio of 8.7:1, allowing the use of regular rather than leaded gasoline." I only changed the word "leaded" to "premium." The word gasoline was already there.
When asked why I made the edit (changing the word leaded to premium) I wrote: "All gasoline was leaded in 1962. The lower compression allowed the use of regular (low-octane) gasoline rather than premium (high-octane) gasoline."
The 1962 statement referred to the context of the Ford Small Block 221 engine when it was released. Btrott (talk) 00:12, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps I said it poorly. This is in response to your edit to Ford small block engine. Your claim that "All gasoline was leaded in 1962" is not true in the international sense and also not true in the US specific sense. I pointed to Tetraethyllead#Phaseout_and_ban to back up my claim. Fortunately, your change to Ford small block engine ("leaded" -> "premium") is still correct, even though your reasoning was wrong.  Stepho  talk  01:47, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
🙄 The link you sent Tetraethyllead#Phaseout_and_ban actually proves my statement that all gasoline/petrol used Tetraethyllead (lead) in 1962. There is a section of your link that list the years when each country banned Tetraethyllead. Not a single country listed banned it until years AFTER 1962. It was first added to petrol/gasoline in the 1920s. The first country to ban it was Japan in 1986. Other countries banned it at later dates. "All gasoline was leaded in 1962" is a pretty reliable statement. If you know of a country that did not use Tetraethyllead in their petrol/gasoline please enlighten me. Btrott (talk) 02:36, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I've just realised something very, very stupid. Somehow I interpreted your statement as "All gasoline was unleaded in 1962". Which makes my above statements so much rubbish. My apologies.  Stepho  talk  03:57, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Apology accepted. We all want Wikipedia to be the best it could be and you are working hard to ensure Wikipedia is accurate. Thank you for your efforts and honesty. Btrott (talk) 04:01, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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