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Hi Roger,
Try to look at it from a
different perspective - that of the owner of the repair shop. If one
wanted to comply full with all DOT / EPA regulations, not to mention do the
right environmental thing, how would one "correctly" get rid of a few
gallons of old gas? We don't charge car owners for dumping their
old fuel back in our main tank. Would you like to have to PAY to get rid
of the fuel in your tank, if you took your car in and the fuel needed to be
removed? Do you realize the cost involved if we had to put that old gas in
a 55 gal. drum and pay to have it carted away ? aaargh. Probably cost a fortune
per gallon to have it disposed of as a Hazmat .
Once in a
rare awhile, we have to drop a tank out of a car... maybe the car is
getting a new fuel tank, for instance. If you were the owner of the car, would
you want the few gallons of gas remaining in the old tank to be put back into
the new one? I sure wouldn't if it
were my car.
Considering the tens of
thousands of gallons we go through a week, dumping
5 or 10 gallons in the main tank once in a blue moon is like a
couple raindrops in the ocean...it won't affect anything at all. We
are "spot-checked" and gas at the pumps tested to make sure the octane is
as advertised. It always is. A few gallons of stale gas or old lacquer
thinner or such crap won't have any effect at all.
And, if you are thinking
that we're going to get rich from the added profit, believe me, 10 gals. of
stale fuel won't come close to buying a new breakaway fuel hose for the pump,
when customers drive off with the hose still hanging off the filler neck...
which happens on a regular basis, and, of course, the customer is not
financially responsible for the damage to the pump &
hose...
John
So the station charges us $2.65 [today's rate here in WA] for
somebody else's old stale gas that nobody else wants? The same stuff this
guy already spent $2+/gal on before?
I'm pretty sure that's illegal; at least I sure hope it
is.
--Roger van Hoy, Washougal, WA, '55 DeSoto, '58 DeSoto, '56
Plymouth, '66 Plymouth, '41 Dodge
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 11:41
AM
Subject: [FWDLK] old gas solution
Dumping old, stale, bad
gas back into the gas station main tank? We've been doing this for years and
years at my service station. The real bad stuff (water, for instance)
goes right to the bottom. The old stuff gets diluted by thousands of gallons
of new stuff. Everytime a car comes in and the tank has to be drained
for one reason or another, this is where the gas ends up - back in the
station's tank. After all, it is the most logical place to put it,
there's nowhere else to put it or store it... I also know that pretty
much all local service stations deal with this issue the same way.
John
Hertog
In a message dated 3/2/2007 1:08:01 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
ronbo97@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
They opened up the hole
where the tanker trucks refill the station's underground tanks, and
poured it in. Problem solved.
That is ENTIRELY too practical.... It HAS to be illegal, immoral,
and fattening!
Joe Savard
Lake
Orion, Michigan
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