We can always count on readers to remind us what we should be doing here and God knows I need it.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/insider/ready-fire-aim
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.avweb.com/insider/ready-fire-aim
Wow, Russ, you’re on a roll. Good piece. 
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Wow… astonishing. You finally figured out the truth doesn’t matter, only the politics. You get one gold star for finally figuring it out. You’ll get another when you report on the final story, like mass production of UL being distributed to airports nationwide all at the same time. Until then, anything less is a real yawner. I’m not holding my breath.
You sound like a ray of hope. You’re a real beacon of light.
Based on all of your comments. I bet you’re a real killer of any happy moment within reach
You’re confusing fantasy with hope. How’s that saying go? Just keep doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. So what’s changed over the decades that warrants any hope much less even thinking it?
I know, lets start another committee, or, department, or, whatever and call it EagleII, maybe Eagle III… Yeah, that’ll work right? Let’s, set a deadline and paint it with all kinds of hope bullsh—.
We can all gather around a street corner somewhere near a local FISDO and sing songs and scream and yell obscenities and… well, do whatever people do now a days to get things done. Yeah, that’ll work. I can see it now. Russ turning beet red while screaming through his bull horn. Yeah… that’ll work…
Here’s another one for ya. SKUNKD Super Kool Unleaded NO Kan DO. That for sure will get it done.
There’s a really easy solution to this: add the phrase, “In order to meet the need for diverse fuel options that are inclusive of the needs of all GA users…” to the preamble of any regulations addressing lead content in avgas. The DOGE AI thought filters will immediate detect and cancel it all as a DEI initiative regardless of any laws to the contrary, and EPA will soon be demanding that PBS run “Lead is good for you!” ads on Sesame Street as the price for the annual fifty bucks in federal support they get. Everybody wins! 
I’m confused. What (if anything at all) newsworthy was in this word salad? My best guess is that one individual was inspired to say that we should run around like a lady with her hair on fire because someone else is in a tizzy that people are beginning to scrutinize aromatics and question whether they might be more of an issue than we were first led to believe.
In recent years we all should have learned NOT to join in with the crowd that says “Don’t think, just panic and do whatever we want you to do - NOW!”
Regardless of how long it may have taken to get the ball rolling in the first place, now that we are doing it, replacing our one and only AvGas option is not a snap decision, instant gratification, proposition. Calm down. Fuels are becoming available and people are giving their feedback. Crazy ladies who run around with their hair on fire are not the most intelligent people in the first place - don’t be one of them.
I for one prefer that when we make the switch it is because we know and trust the new fuel, and not because someone said: “Pick this one now! or else you will never be allowed to fly again!”
From Russ:
Nothing newsworthy. It’s opinion.
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The extinction of general aviation is just around the corner. Lead in fuel and excess noise stands out as the two largest threats but it seems a lot of the general aviation community hasn’t gotten past even the recognition stage that this is a problem. With so many in denial I don’t think we are going to solve the current problems. Extinction is right around the corner and without the correct attitude to recognize and fix the issues, extinction is a very possibility.
If the alphabet groups and the FAA don’t take real leadership on unleaded avgas, the decision will be made for us by regulators and developers who see small airports as real estate waiting to be rezoned. And if the industry doesn’t ensure high-performance engines have a workable solution, we’ll lose a generation of capable piston aircraft along with it.
You shouldn’t. His job is to report a story as things develop and not wait for the fat lady to sing, and it is fair for hom to look into his crystal ball to give us a reasonable perspeftive on where things are going.
So don’t tell someone how to do their job, don’t judge them based on “I don’t like it (WWWAAAA),” and by all means, don’t hang by your thumbs.
Keep up the good work, Russ.
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In life you have to stand up for your rights,freedoms for yourself once in awhile.In words of a civil rights campaigner,”freedom is never granted,it is won”
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There are plenty of us in Colorado watching this one. There’s a very hostile faction around KJBC who wants to shut it down so they can hand it over to developers. One part of its lynchpin claims is that lead in the groundwater is poisoning school kids and causing cancer. Another is lead is settling on their window sills. The supporters through an FOIA request dug up a buried formal, scienticic report that said the only place in the area affected by lead was ONE. SINGLE, HOUSE with known lead problems, and there are NO health reports involving kids’ health or cancer patients.
Never mind that the airport is right next to a major highway and surrounded by smaller ones that have been there for a long time before our cars required unleaded. Never mind the decades when leaded fuel was the only thing. Lead just doesn’t go away. Ir should still be there.
I think the term is “Chicken Little Syndrome.”
There’s also the noise issue. A rep from my club attended the “listening session” you mentioned, three hours held IN A HANGAR WITH THE DOOR OPEN AND NO INTERRUPTIONS. Some jamoke claimed he had to sleep in the closet and most of the others complained about noise, not the jets coming and going, but “little airplanes buzzing and circling our houses” from touch-and-go ops. So T&G, the same practice as always was, is now a weapon for detractors.
Never mind there is no lead problem, never mind little airplanes fly normal predictable patterns at normal predictable altitudes and don’t buzz your house. I could go on about how the FAA REQUIRES the airport to stay open as it is the base for emergency and firefighting in our region and the next available airport is DIA. Never mind the bazillions it puts into the economy on top of the FAA subsidies it gets. It looks like the next step will be huge, stinkly, hysterical, loud and frivolous lawsuits, because nowadays, that’s what it takes to be a bully.
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Before you use it again, look up word salad in the dictionary.
The solution is obvious. Turn the Donald’s solution around; accept the U.S. as a new, southern Canadian territory and then strike a Royal Commision to investigate and report back to parliament within a reasonable 12 to15 year time frame. It works so well that no one even remembers why it was struck in the first place.
Ah, classic Canadian humor. 
Well said. Not that I want to poke it with a stick or anything, but maybe the politics of today in the USA will also play a role.
If, as looks likely, the FAA, along with other Fs, is gutted in the name of lower taxes, (it was all in his manifesto) will it leave the way open for the states to operate freely without FAA sticking its nose in?
And are states more likely to ban lead fuel, because the local politicians are more likely to know the folks who object to it?
So, what’s your point. I got curious and looked it up. The dictionary described the phrase, it applies to the article although I do not believe Russ suffers from any debilitating neurological issues. So if you have a specific issue with the term - word salad- please, enlighten us.
Appreciate your wake-up call Russ. As a C421 driver, I appreciate the fact that the aging fleet of twin-Cessnas that they haven’t made in 40 years will eventually be replaced by turboprops (singles or twins). The owner of one of the ones I fly just put $250k into a new glass panel and another $200k into annuals. So we hope that plane is still around another 20 years!!! Will the Lycoming in the Decathalon I am restoring be replaced with a Rotax? Or will the certified Lycoming engines that have run on the good stuff for decades be forced to run on the untested decaf? Those of us (old timers) who use “low-lead” will dig our heels in and just continue doing what we are doing until we truly can no longer get the juice, despite what California and Colorado are doing. But it could disappear quicker than we think. I think it is going to come down to Lycoming and Continental approving it for ALL their engines.
Repeating that simple sentence in Russ’ article: I doesn’t matter what we think.
This steamroller is unstoppable. Resistance is futile.