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You can see this at work already with gasoline for small planes, which commands a huge premium over automotive gasoline now. Around here, the cost is 2x higher or more. The premium used to be smaller, but when gas prices came down from their $4 high, avgas didn't really follow.


87UL and 93UL aren't much more expensive than automotive gas, since it's pretty much the same thing. It's 100+ octane leaded gas that's expensive, and it'll stay that way until general aviation gets out of its carburetor & fixed timing rut and join the modern world of direct fuel injection and FADEC.


Which will not happen quickly because FAA certification makes re-powering small aircraft expensive and strict maintenance requirements keeps half century old planes running


The're working on an unleaded 100 octane avgas: http://www.eaa.org/en/airventure/eaa-airventure-news-and-mul...


I didn't realize there was 87/93 avgas. What's the difference between that and what goes in cars?


Chemically, they're identical. They might be taxed differently though.




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