Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site drusd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!drutx!drusd!phl From: phl@drusd.UUCP (LavettePH) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Re: Leaded vs. Unleaded? Message-ID: <1244@drusd.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 14:45:19 EST Article-I.D.: drusd.1244 Posted: Thu Mar 7 14:45:19 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Mar-85 05:15:34 EST References: <496@hou2e.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 17 Why get upset at the EPA? Dan Lundberg reported in his industry newsletter and on PBS's "Nightly Business Report" that due to the declining market for leaded gas the major distributors were going to stop selling it. He predicted that no major refinery would be producing leaded gasoline by late 1986 or early 1987 and it would then be made only by specialty firms for sale at $.50 to $.75 per gallon more than unleaded premium. He made this forecast about four months ago. He is usually pretty accurate. He was right on the money with his price predictions resulting from the oil glut this winter. When he made that prediction last summer gas was selling about $.30 a gallon more than it is now and he predicted a $.25+ drop. If Lundberg is correct again leaded gas would have pretty much have vanished from the neighborhood gas station in a year or so even if the EPA had done nothing. - Phil