On: FAA, do your damn job

[bombcar]

The nuance is it's lose-lose for the FAA bureaucrats if they approve an unleaded gas and something later happens.

There is NO risk to the bureaucrats if they keep stalling on unleaded and let everyone run 100LL for all eternity.

[JumpCrisscross → bombcar]

> There is NO risk to the bureaucrats if they keep stalling on unleaded and let everyone run 100LL for all eternity

This is oversimplifying. Yes, there is a bureaucratic bias towards inaction. But stonewalling is an action. The GAO audit the author posits could very well endgame key decision makers' careers.

[EricE → JumpCrisscross]

If you have an example of anyone getting a career ended because of a GAO audit, I'd love to see it!

[londons_explore → JumpCrisscross]

Nobody in government gets fired for inaction...

[bombcar → londons_explore]

Politicians can, but it is VERY rare, and NEVER over something that affects a very small portion of the population.