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Originally posted by kkina:
As Pale Horse mentioned, it's not the value of the questionable fuel, it's the question of how to properly dispose of it, like from a HazMat perspective. OP said that he would have to relinquish his jerry can to dispose at his local landfill, which he's not willing to do. So how else to get rid of it?

Go to your local auto parts store that recycles oil. Usually people leave 5 gallon buckets with lids that new oil came in, at the auto parts store after they dump the oil. Drive to the recycling place with the gas in the gas can, pour it into the 5 gallon bucket once you get there, drop it off. Or call the local recycling place and ask how to do it and keep your gas can. Usually the recycleable gets poured into either a steel 55 gallon drum by type, or large tank.

give these people a call,
they will tell you where , in your area, you can take it. http://www.wastecom.com/

or
putting it in your vehicle sounds good , ( according to my mechanic)

50/50 ratio

Save it to kill yellow jacket in-ground nests. Just pour it into the wasp hole at night. Use sparingly. Just pour a quart in the nest hole and put a rock over the hole afterwards. Rinse, wash, and repeat.

Do you even know if the gasoline is bad?

I usually have ±25 ga. of gasoline in cans, another 4 ga. in the generator, and whatever's in the riding mower. At any given time I'm likely to have one-year-old fuel in at least one of those.

The only equipment that's ever given me trouble has been my snow-throwers. It was explained to me it's because of the cold and the engine designs make them more sensitive to the fuel.

I used ethanol blends in all that stuff for 25 years--only switching to real gas winter-before-last in the snow throwers and in the summer gear this summer.

I treat all my small engine fuel with Sta-Bil.

Our boats also always had ethanol blended fuels in them and they'd survive the half-year or so winter storage without a problem. I just made sure to have the tanks topped-off during storage to reduce room for outside air exchange. I used Sta-Bil Marine formula in the boats' fuel.

Btw: Mixing ethanol-gone-bad with good gasoline is a not a good idea. If it has phase separated, all the King's men and all the King's horses can't put it back together again. And one of the two (sometimes three) layers will be pure water. It will remain water after being combined with the good gas.

Is JERRY can politically correct?? Just kidding. The Jerry term is slang for Germans according to my recollections.

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just realized this was pasted by Chongo.

pour it in your cruiser, and let the city repair the maintenance

Use it in rusbro's drone flamethrower?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07rtBip9ixk

flashguy

In the past , I've simply offered it to a teenager with an old beater car. I always tell them that it's old , stale gas but that never dissuades them.
It's win/win !

I put it in the Jeep. I'm sure it was ethanol-free, but I don't remember 100%.

It smelled Ok, tasted fine. I figure 5 of 22 gallons wouldn't hurt much. Running fine.


Ok...so I didn't taste it. But my dad would have

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Originally posted by chongosuerte:


Ok...so I didn't taste it. But my dad would have

Hahahaha

What Dad would have done is pour a little out onto a rock or dirt and light it with a match/lighter.
You can tell from the energetic manner in which it burns whether it is good or not.

Chongo- I was hoping to talk to you offline. Could you email me at your convenience? fpd236 at gmail. Thanks.

All this over gasoline that is only 1 year old? Heck the gas in my summer car is nearly a year old and I know from experience that it will run perfectly fine. I also had a boat that I let sit for 3 years and all I did with that gas was drain it from the tank into a 6 gallon container and top my daily driver off with that gas, the car ran fine. BTW, took me 5 weeks to empty the boat tank doing this and after that I made sure to spend some time every summer on the boat until I finally sold it.

Point is that if you dilute old gas into fresh gas you can get some use out of it without any harm. Note, with a fuel injected engine I would suggest a dilution between 5 and 10 parts to one, for an engine with a car just 2 or 3 to 1 should be fine. Hint, if you have a riding tractor you've just found an inexpensive means to stretch out it's fuel supply.

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Originally posted by Scooter123:
All this over gasoline that is only 1 year old? Heck the gas in my summer car is nearly a year old and I know from experience that it will run perfectly fine. I also had a boat that I let sit for 3 years and all I did with that gas was drain it from the tank into a 6 gallon container and top my daily driver off with that gas, the car ran fine. BTW, took me 5 weeks to empty the boat tank doing this and after that I made sure to spend some time every summer on the boat until I finally sold it.

Point is that if you dilute old gas into fresh gas you can get some use out of it without any harm. Note, with a fuel injected engine I would suggest a dilution between 5 and 10 parts to one, for an engine with a car just 2 or 3 to 1 should be fine. Hint, if you have a riding tractor you've just found an inexpensive means to stretch out it's fuel supply.

If the gas is truly bad it doesn't matter how much you dilute it. You will just have that much more bad gas. Bad gas can do major damage to fuel components.....carberators…….fuel injectors, fuel pumps, filters.

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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
Now you have some Molotov cocktails for the zombie apocalypse

One hell of a time to find out it won't burn.

pour it on a tree stump.