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Old 05-03-2007, 07:18 PM
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Probably not a great idea...

I started flushing the toilet and dumped the stuff in on top, usually I'm much more green than that.
Old 05-03-2007, 08:52 PM
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Donate it to a charity and write it off at $4 / Gallon. Or better yet, put it in an old expendable gas can, then put it in the back of a pickup, and drive over to the nearest WalMart. Problem solved.
Old 05-03-2007, 08:59 PM
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Call it vintage, aged 'quarter mile' accelerant and put it on Ebay.

G'luck.

p.s. save it for Burning Man 2007, in Nevada.
Old 05-03-2007, 09:12 PM
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I usually maintain about 20 gallons of gas for my hurricane reserve. When H-cane season is over, I pour it into my Aerostar minivan and burn it up. Gawd it knocks and pings! Who cares: It's a crappy '97 Aerostar afterall!

Well, this year I wound up with a few gallons left and a generator sitting bored. I thought I should just pull the starter handle and let it run until it quit, but I decided differently; I let the generator run out of gas, and then put everything away. I timed it to see just how much gas it uses. It's actually pretty efficient.

I used to just add it to my used engine oil; Pep-Boys or Autozone will always take the used Persian tea, but I make a point of telling the owner/manager that I 'm dropping off the used oil. So far, the gas has been poured into the Ford Aerostar minivan, powered by the 3.0 vulcan engine. The Vulcan is a garbage bargain basement engine that Ford developed in the '80's for their Taurus automobiles. It works, but nothing more can be said about it.

A perfect place for used oil; dirt-ball used American engine way outside of its' warrantee period!

Anyway, Pep-boys is pretty receptive to taking used oil.

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Old 05-03-2007, 09:17 PM
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I had five cars to scrap out with unusable gas. I burned it in a steel bowl, about three gallons at a time. Beats letting it get in the ground water. Takes about 20 min. to burn 3 gal..
Old 05-03-2007, 09:30 PM
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Originally Posted by macreel
Call it vintage, aged 'quarter mile' accelerant and put it on Ebay.

G'luck.

p.s. save it for Burning Man 2007, in Nevada.
Old 05-03-2007, 10:12 PM
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I dumped it in my truck a gal at a time and burned it
Old 05-03-2007, 10:34 PM
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You can do what the bonehead of this 85 I just got running did and put it back into the tank thereby ruining another good fuel pump.
Old 05-04-2007, 01:30 AM
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I have run it in boring cars a gallon at a time, mixed with fresh gas. Sometimes the fire department training center will take it, I've heard. Never tried that.
Old 05-04-2007, 01:41 AM
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Put it in a steel barrel and paint a radioactive materials sign on it and sell it to a third world country telling them its a nuclear bomb.
Old 05-04-2007, 02:13 AM
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Make some cool mushroom cloud explosions!

Put gas in a plastic bag with an ignitor. Put the bag in an giant wok bowl. Fire remotely as people run by...


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