nycgps

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mix it with my used motor oil and dump it at autozone? lol

well, my car has been out of service for more than a year, it has almost full tank of gas in it. ethanol junk probably killed the gas already and in about a month or 2 i will put the car back on the road(assume i didnt **** up my engine build and e erything works)

so yeah, where do u guys pour old gas? should i make the trip to local fire department and ask?im in nyc. thx(no, i will never just pour it down the drain)

Furb

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Make a nice bonfire on times square :p

Rob XX 7

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it actually evaporates pretty quick when left out in the sun

nycgps

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mmmm i actually thought about that but not sure if its safe.

rx7racerca

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Safe is a question, and it's definitely environmentally un-friendly - it'd be better if you just burned it on a bonfire (although a full tank is a lot of gas). Unburned fuel is worse than burning it because it contributes to ground-level ozone, in turn a building-block of smog.

Call your local fire department - they should know the proper way to dispose of the bad gas legally and safely. Here, at least, you actually take gas, solvents, old paint, and so on to firehalls for proper disposal.

Molotovman

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Put it up for free on Craigslist. Someone will use it. I just run old gas in my lawnmowers, but you probably don't have that ability being in the city.

Rob XX 7

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you cant have open flames especially in NYC, allowing it to evaporate in the sun cannot possibly be worse then letting it burn out your car's exhaust pipe or the amount of fuel that evaporates into the air every single day from car's tanks.

I left a 5 gallon bucket of it out in the sun over a weekend and it was gone, just make sure it wont get rained on, lol,

beefhole

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^I'm with this guy. Just leave it outside. Careful what you drain it into though, the gas could eat away at it.

AGreen

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Some people mix it with motor oil and dump it at advance. I'm not saying that I do that

The sign up front at the advance down the street from me says "Recycle used automotive fluids here". So I go in and ask the guy if they recycle coolant, and he tells me "just oil". "But your sign says FLUIDS". The argument continued on for a while, and I also had old gasoline to dispose of too.

Short story even shorter, they ended up taking it all

J5sense

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bring it to a shop. i know our shop would just mix it with our used oil

Rob XX 7

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A plastic 5 gallon bucket works great, grab one with a lid if you want incase you got to store it inside due to rain.

I pay about $100 to dispose of a 55 gallon drum of old gas, but they also come get it from me and pump it out.

Aaron Cake

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Most communities have a hazardous waste center open to the public. They will take it, and it is usually free. This is how I dispose of all my spare fluids (the ones that don't find their way into a girlfriend, that is...bazinga!).

jackhild59

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I wouldn't put it in a lawnmower or anything else.

I siphoned a partial tank of old smelly gas out of a TII tank once, maybe 8-10 gallons. I didn't know that to do with it so I put it in the tank of my E150 Ford Van.

Big Mistake! That poor van would barely run. I made the mistake worse by driving to a gas station and adding another 10 gal or so of gas to dilute the bad stuff. The van still wouldn't run worth a flip. Now it had 30 gallons of bad gas. Once the gas was used up, the van ran fine.

j9fd3s

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put it in a car that won't care, or in other words just don't drive hard for the first tank

AGreen

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Maybe in Canada, but it's very difficult down here to find a hazardous waste facility that takes such things as gasoline, especially for free.

Eww. You pour old automotive fluids into your girlfriend! She must be a nasty one.

Rob XX 7

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we have one or two days a year where you can bring stuff like that to the town dump no questions asked http://www.townofbabylon.com/calenda...id=2&calid=324

MarcinAL

Um, I though that's why NJ was so close to NY. Am I wrong about that????

Aaron Cake

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That surprises me. How can the US not have that infrastructure?! What do you do with old paint, batteries, household chemicals, etc.?

JerryLH3

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Here where I live, they have a hazardous waste collection site that accepts dropoffs twice a month. I think some people just aren't looking hard enough for places to properly dispose of their waste materials.

rotorymanincraig

I poured a little bit of old 2 stroke gas down a pests burough that was dug into my yard. worked great, I got rid of the gas and also the Dak Rat.

AGreen

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Paint dries up (water based, that is) and can be tossed in a garbage can. Lead-based paint is a different story, but it's no longer 1972, so that really shouldn't be an issue. Many places take old batteries, especially car batteries, for recycling. Household chemicals... not sure which household chemicals you're talking about, but if they're cleaning chemicals, they get used and sent down the drain (like toilet cleaner... I'm not going to siphon toilet cleaner out of my ******* and take it somewhere to be disposed of... not happening). For gasoline and other weird hazmat, you usually have to call a company and pay them $$ to take it away and "properly dispose of it". Otherwise, you get fined and pay even more $$$. I'm not really sure how it gets properly disposed. Do they send it out on a train to Idaho and bury it deep underground in a big pool like our spent nuclear fuel?

There are recycling centers, sometimes even locally. Most times they're too damn far away though. You'd think it'd be in the government's best interest to put in place some sort of federally funded program to prevent people from using the so very easy plan "b" (dumping **** in the drain or trash can), but usually there's not. Seriously, for as big and established a country we are, there just really isn't as big of a push for recycling here like there is in most well-established countries. A few years ago, I lived in a city where you had to pay extra to get a recycling bin, and that was only good for 3 things : Newspaper, aluminum cans, and plastic jugs. Most people opted not to pay extra for it, and threw everything in the trash, and the city was just ducky with that! There's no law against it, so why should you pay more for something you don't have to do? Is there something wrong with that? Hell yes. Will it get fixed soon? Probably not.

Rob XX 7

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Get paid $15 for old car batteries
the fuel i pay to remove.
Oil - shops take it mostly for their heaters, they take anti freeze too which they have picked up for free by recyclers.