Old gasoline

Nah; that'll cause a bunch of bare spots. What you should do is mix it with your booze and drink it yourself.

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AZ Nomad
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How about you make soup out of it and feed it to your family. Or salad dressing. It's harmless, right?

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Tom Miller

Tomatos grown in gasoline soaked ground... Hummmm!!!

You could always mix it up with fresh two cycle gas a little at a time. No valves to get stuck. Might run a bit crappy though.

I would again mix it either with fresh gas and run it in a lawnmower or

snowblower.

OR

Use it as a nice good weedkiller. Just pour it in small amounts. Enough to kill the grass but not enough to soak in a do some soil damage. You might be even able to use it in a spray bottle to kill the weeds....

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BocesLib

Where do you think fried tomatoes come from?

Remove NOPSAM to email me. Please let me know if you have posted also.

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mm

Runoff of this can be a problem environmentally. If spreadout along a fenceline, yes it kills everything for that growing season on that fenceline. And much less likely to runoff if dumped in one location. Typically the next growing season, the soil has recovered enough by breaking down the gasoline to usable or benign components. 2 to 3 years, one would think fertilizer was dropped there instead by growth appearances. Used engine oil is similar. Would have second thoughts on synthetic oil or petroleum based oil with additive product added to the oil by the consumer.

Dumping laws were directed at chemicals, oil products that were dumped with no attention to the environment. A common invisible example is an underground gasoline storage tank that has leaks due to age. The contents get into the water table. The environmental laws apply to all. Even though some conscientious individual could dispense a given amount of petroleum waste without any immediate and subsequent impact except the location its dumped. A gallon of "bad" gasoline doesn't go to far spread out on a fenceline. Most of it evaporates.

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Jim

Why? Edible foods are grown in soil with fertilizers derived from petroleum, or some form of manure everyday. The only difference here between petroleum derived fertilizer and this is that am not paying for it. Mother nature is doing the chemical breakdown of the petroleum product. Just because its not a common practice, doesn't mean its not viable.

Anyone who's done backyard location car work for years in a location in the backyard, then abandoned that location has seen the results from the oil and gasoline waste. Similar to the grass growing greener over a leaky septic tank or leech field. Fenceline waste oil dumping is the same. Takes a couple of years to recover, but the results are the same.

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Jim

Since you know this to be true, please provide us with the chemical formulas of how gasoline and it's additives become fertilizer.

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FDR

Overview

Each year, American consumers accidentally spill more than 9 million gallons of gasoline, largely in attempts to fill small engine machines like lawn mowers, chain saws, generators and outboard motors and through improper disposal of excess or old gasoline. The Alliance for Proper Gasoline Handling is a unique public-private partnership helping to reduce the significant environmental harm caused by millions of these small, accidental spills.

A typical portable fuel container, also called a gas can, emits about

8 pounds of hydrocarbons through spills and evaporation each year.

Compared to a new car, a typical portable fuel container emits twice the amount of hydrocarbons each year.

There are about 78 million portable fuel containers in the United States. In total, portable fuel containers emit about 621 million pounds, or 310,000 tons, of hydrocarbons each year.

A rough estimate of hydrocarbon emissions from gasoline spillage alone is approximately 28,000 tons per year nationwide.

About one tenth of a gallon of gasoline is spilled per portable fuel container each year during typical use and handling.

These releases contribute, at least in part, to the United States Geologic Society (USGS) estimate that more than 40 million people use groundwater that contains at least one volatile organic compound, many of which are components of gasoline.

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Tom Miller

Didn't you mean "add it to your neighbor's truck"?

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Stormin Mormon

Depends on the locale. Some locales have no drinking water supply that could be termed "ground water". Jeez, throw some common sense in the old gasoline dumping and where its going. Some anaerobic bacteria naturally eat raw petroleum, and peat/decaying plant material underground or underwater or both. Whatever is added to gasoline or oil can be problem for these.

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Jim

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"Derived from" is not "the same as". And they don't put MTBE in fertilizer. Maybe some plants may grow OK years after such contamination, but that doesn't mean they are good for me to eat. For you, maybe?

Bob

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Bob

Pretty weak response, Lil.

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Tom Miller

Absolute baloney! No way there is 9 million gallons spilled filling small engines. That just is not true. Its phoney figures like this that make people question the entire motives of environmentalists. You paint a picture of people just slopping gas around like it was soapy water at a car wash.

Ah-ha! There's the agenda! got to prop up the numbers so you have a cause to fight. There's money in it dont cha know? Gument pays good dont they? Hey! how `bout we tax them dirty homeowners who're spilling all that gasoline?

Another wild claim - do the math! now we've got gas cans emitting almost more tons of pollution than they weigh in the first place and just by evaporation.

You want to clean things up? Go after the fools driving the "blue smokers" down the road. Stop with the wild-ass foolish claims that end up costing everyone money for nothing. Spin spin spin, you people sure do know how to spin and twist things. Eric

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Eric

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