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Article #7990Re: Why do they keep calling it "unleaded"?
From: Daniel J. Stern
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:37
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:37
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On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, LoLo wrote: > It seems to me that gas is either has lead ADDED or not. You cannot > un-lead or un-sweet anything. Unleaded *means* no lead has been added. Just as unsweetened icedd tea has not been sweetened, unwashed dishes have not been washed, unmitigated gall is absolute, unadulterated bullshit is the stinkiest kind, and unacceptable behaviour is not tolerated. You are reacting as though it were called "deleaded gasoline", which it is not, and which would imply that the fuel once had lead in it, which was subsequently removed. Some stations, particularly in the '70s and '80s, used to refer to it as "No-lead gasoline" or "lead-free gasoline". And the Brits sometimes still say "nonleaded petrol".
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