Lead was added to organic gasoline compounds to increase the fuel's resistance to pre-ignition from the 1920s through its banning in 1996. Lead exposure reached its peak in the 1960s. Scientists ...

Racing fuel and pump gas may seem similar at first glance, but they serve distinct purposes and are engineered differently.

An editorial earlier this summer (“Don’t let children near Colorado’s airports suffer the same fate as kids in Flint, Mich.” July 11, 2023) focused on an important issue, but grossly oversimplified ...

Engine knock, wherein fuel ignites unevenly along the cylinder wall resulting in damaging percussive shockwaves, is an issue that automakers have struggled to mitigate since the days of the Model T.

Leaded gasoline's century-long reign of destruction is over. The final holdout, Algeria, used up the last of its stockpile of leaded gasoline in July. That's according to the U.N. Environment ...

Lead was phased out of gasoline sold for cars and trucks decades ago. But that brain-damaging fuel additive used to prevent engine knock is still being spewed into the air across the nation — ...

Uncle Sam has decided to "get the lead out" of gas. Face it: The lead is coming out. For better or for worse, our EPA who art in Washington has already cut the allowable gasoline lead concentration ...

Have pings got you down? Has driving your car become a pain in the gas? Are your exhaust valves being "lead" astray? Well, as promised in last month's "Living With Unleaded," article, have we got some ...