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> You can have high octane gasoline without lead. Suggesting that ethanol replaced lead is facetious.

I'm no expert on fuel mixtures but currently it does even if there better/worse alternatives.

> Suggesting that a wasteful farming practice is saving us from lead is like shooting one foot off and the exclaiming that you "saved" your other foot.

You are making an nonsensical generalization from a single study. This isn't black on white. Not all ethanol are corn ethanol and this is an industry that sees operational improvement year by year.




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