bloke wrote: ↑Sun Nov 19, 2023 3:55 pm
bort2.0 wrote:stuck with leaded gasoline up here
I suspect you're confusing "unleaded" with "alcohol-free".
Nope, just a stupid joke. Definitely no where to go for non-oxy around here. My snow blower likes it.
Side note, in high school, our band camp was one week long in August at a small college in middle of nowhere in West Virginia. It was definitely interesting to drive through some really really small towns in the mountains. This would have been around 1994 or 1995, which was shortly before leaded gas was formally outlawed in the beginning of 1996. I was too young to really be aware or care about such things and much detail, but my understanding is that leaded gas was basically obsolete for a few years before that, and I sure don't ever remember seeing leaded gas as an option.
But somewhere in the middle of nowhere West Virginia, I remember driving past a small two pump gas station where they had a handwritten sign off front that said something like sorry, now unloaded only.
It was funny at the time, for some reason, but in the years since then, I've come to understand and empathize with their experience of being the last place to get anything new. For what it's worth, I think West Virginia is an absolutely beautiful state, with some major infrastructure problems that makes it a very difficult place to live in a lot of ways. Really great people, brutal and unfair stereotypes, and did I mention it's a really beautiful state?
I watches something recently about how a bunch of extremely rich people are buying up land in West Virginia because it's extremely cheap and yes, beautiful. Building vacation houses that cost millions of dollars, and supporting an entire economy of people that clean, and service their lavish vacations and lifestyles. Not to mention, the construction of these houses in the first place. Very difficult dichotomy of a boost to the local economy, and destruction of the sparse population that those people enjoy in the first place. It was really interesting, and I'm not sure what extent this is happening, large or small, or what's actually going on.
Finally, the tie in here, is that one of the West Virginians the interviewed was talking about how people were moving from other states to come do all these things, and how she didn't want them to mess up West Virginia the same way they messed up Tennessee.
Again, nice tuba case.
