Jakuso wrote:Defwa wrote:For your viewing pleasure: A list of how it would benefit you to restrict leaded fuel use.
Even small amounts of leaded fuel use can cause negative health effects, especially in children, and can accumulate in soil in amounts far above natural negligible amounts.
If only a small population uses leaded fuels, then your fuel companies are likely spending more money on delivering, storing, and distributing the fuel than it would cost to subsidize conversion. This is because carrying another product in sufficient quantity increases fixed costs.
Modern unleaded fuel is more efficient, resulting in less fuel use overall.
Now, as stated earlier, just because something in your nation is not a problem does not mean that it should be ignored. Genocide isn't a problem in Defwa but we'd still prefer to have legislation on it. One of the main ideas behind legislating through the WA that ignore serious problems is to force them to do the right thing.
But that's our decision. The Yakusan Environmental Agency have researched the topic and have found no actionable risk. We haven't noticed any related health problems of people living in areas where there is a presence of leaded fuel use. But our opinion on this matter is very much divided back at the Yakusan Foreign Ministry. We could, if we see suitable reason, come to a different conclusion for our vote on this proposal.
But we're not legislating for just the Yakus. We're legislating for everyone in this improbable (by ancient Mundiferri standards) universe. There may be no issues with you, but there must definitely be issues somewhere else.
And if you argue that we shouldn't support this for "nationstate democracy" (by your definition, at least), then I am sure the exit would find your ideas very welcome. Leaded fuel is just too damn dangerous to really use (OOC: referring to resources story-imported from the IRL sources above), what with all the good, cheap, easy-to-implement alternatives sitting around....