Lead in petrol
Sir, —The Minister for the Environment’s plan to purify our lives by removing the lead from our petrol is a noble gesture? Indeed, the owners of the few cars able to run on U.L.P. listed in the Ministry of Energy’s pamphlet should see the gesture as such. Undoubtedly the rest of the population shall survive without it. However, I would like to know what is to happen to the substantial number of car owners whose vehicles date back to an era before high octane petrol, vehicles whose engines will be damaged by both super and U.L.P.? It would seem as if the Government’s latest attempt at social fascism will mean Shanks’s Pony for a large number of students, vintage car enthusiasts and Victims of freemarket environmentalism. — Yours, etc., KEN BAILER. January 22, 1987.
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