Had fuel sitting in a 5 gallon bucket and had a question about a fuel pump?

Hi, I replaced the fuel pump. Had to drain all the gas into a 5 gallon bucket sprayed out with water then let dry after. I wasn’t planning on putting the gas back in my tank but my friends dad said its not gonna hurt anything. After it was all drained into the bucket I seen a couple things that were settling at the bottom.. Maybe a little from the gas tank and a little from the window blowing stuff in. Let it settle and go down to the bottom of the bucket then siphon it back into a gas can but didn’t suck up any of that shit that was on the bottom left a like a quarter of a gallon so I didn’t suck that stuff up.

And you think a gallon of gas is expensive? Check this out!?

Diet Snapple 16 oz $1.29 … $10.32 per gallon
Lipton Ice Tea 16 oz $1.19 ……….$9.52 per gallon
Gatorade 20 oz $1.59 …. $10.17 per gallon
Ocean Spray 16 oz $1.25 . $10.00 per gallon
Brake Fluid 12 oz $3.15 . $33.60 per gallon
Vick’s Nyquil 6 oz $8.35 … $178.13 per gallon
Pepto Bismol 4 oz $3.85 .. $123.20 per gallon
Whiteout 7 oz $1.39 ……. . $25.42 per gallon
Scope 1.5 oz $0.99 …..$84.48 per gallon
And this is the REAL KICKER…
Evian water 9 oz $1.49……….$21.19 per gallon!
$21.19 for WATER and the buyers don’t even know the source.
(Evian spelled backwards is Naive.)
Ever wonder why printers are so cheap?
So they have you hooked for the ink.
Someone calculated the cost of the ink at…………….
you won’t believe it……………….
but it is true…………………….
$5,200 a gal. (five thousand two hundred dollars)
So, the next time you’re at the pump,
be glad your car doesn’t run on water, scope, white out or printer ink.

At what point does a driver have to have a hazmat endorsement for carrying diesel fuel. 150 gallon tank aboard

The truck is a specialty truck providing fuel and water for an asphalt crew. The truck is also a commercial vehicle. Is there a cut off, in gallons, that placarding is required and also an endorsement.

How much water must be added to a 20 gallon tank for a car not to start?

My car is not starting and i believe it could be due to water in the fuel tank. what ratio of water in a tank would cause this problem? the car ran after i filled it up, and drove home. The next morning the car wouldn’t start.
I think it might be water because the car is only 5 years old and everything else is working fine. i checked the battery, and the spark plugs are good.
I also filled up at a mom and pops gas station.

Why do we have to pay the full price for a gallon of ethanol/gas blended?

When the ethanol has only two thirds the BTU’s as gasoline! They should require separate pumps for blended gas, straight gas and E85 the worst of the choices! The weights and measures people should enforce all laws pertaining to this! They are selling watered down fuel and labeling it as straight gas! If you use only straight gasoline you will see an immediate improvement in your MPG!
Whether it’s required by law or not I buy gas that is labeled gas with no ethanol, 100% gas! And Jennifer has to work for a corn company to be misrepresenting things with her smear like that! It costs one sixth more to produce a gallon of ethanol gas and you could only drive two thirds of the distance that you could if you were driving with a gallon of conventional gasoline! Hydrogen has very little BTU’s in a cubic yard of hydrogen gas! For the equivalent of a gallon of gasoline in conparison you would only go one third the distance unless it was in the form of hydrides which would give a tiny improvement!
Every time they blend in something else they are displacing the usable portion that provides the energy! I remember when NY state required the maximum permissible price per gallon on the pumps why is that not being provided any longer?
I think many of you need to take an applied mathematics class! Your contentions by themselves are meaningless they would need to be connected to a constant! If 20% of your fuel supply is ethanol and you have a 30 gallon tank like most SUV’s, then you have one fifth of your fuel supply comprising ethanol or 5 into 30 equals 6 gallons of ethanol in the tank!Six from 30 equals 24 comprising regular gas offering maybe 21 miles per gallon tops in a SUV, or 504 miles on that 24 gallons and two thirds of 21 equals 14 miles times 6 gallons of cheap bad ethanol So with a 30 gallon tank expect 588 miles tops! Of course that would be optimal and no one drives under those conditions so subtract another 5 miles per gallon from each side of the equation!
A 30 gallon tank filled with ethanol will give you two thirds of 21 miles per gallon or 14 miles per gallon times 30 gallons equals 420 miles on a tank full! If you have a 20 gallon tank you get 280 miles to a tank full! If fuel were selling for 3 dollars a gallon and it was pure ethanol it should only be priced at 2 dollars a gallon, because it would only be useful as far as two thirds of the distance in comparison to a gallon of gasoline!A 30 gallon tank full should only cost two times 30 or 60 to fill your vehicle! A 20 gallon tank full should only cost 40 dollars to fill your vehicle!

I accidentally spilled about a gallon of gasoline in our car’s trunk- should I be worried?

We got up most of the gas with a towel, and we threw it away. We also rinsed out the carpet mat very well with water. There is just a slight smell still remaining of gas. We also had aired out the trunk overnight.

Should I be very worried about this? Should I not put our groceries in the trunk, even for less than an hour? Do we need to be worried about carcinogens? Will the smell fade with time? Will the remaining vapors in the trunk contaminate food if I place it in the trunk to bring home?

Can I usge a water bottle to store 1 gallon of gasoline? Or will the gasoline eat through this?

The reason for this is because my gas gauge does not work. It happned after I went up into the mountains 4,000 ft and when I came home my gas guage went wakky.

At least I think it happened because of this it could have been its too old as my care is 23 years old.

So I want to store 1 gallon of gas in my car and use a 1 gallon water bottlle that seems to be pretty sturdy. I just want to make sure the gasoline will not eat through this plastic. thank you

What should I do if about a gallon of water is poured in my gas tank?

Ok, so my girlfriend of two years and I just recently broke up for more than one reason. Now just earlier tonight my roommate caught her in our driveway with an empty 1 gallon container. Apparently….she put water in my tank (some of it spilled on the ground). When I got back from class I got in my car and turned it on, and just then my roommate comes flying at me waving her arms frantically telling me what happened. After discussing why it didn’t make sense to call my phone and inform me right when it happened (and trying fruitlessly to contact my ex), I started researching what to do but I thought I’d ask what may have happened with me just starting the car (nothing seemed wrong at the time) and what would have happened if I started driving.
I noticed that my main question and what I asked for in my explanation were two different questions. Thank you to everyone that answered, you lot basically confirmed my research. What I was really curious about was how quickly the water could affect my car from working and can there be any perminant damage?

why are so many willing to pay $8.00 a gallon for water, but complain about gas prices?

How many miles to the gallon?

I own a used bread van that was converted into a mobile chuck wagon. It is powered by propane gas, but I can never figure out the mileage because it uses propane for the gas stove, oven, hot water and refrigerator. How many miles to the gallon does propane or natural gas get to the gallon compared to the same engine powered by gasoline? When gas was going for over $4 a gallon, LPG was costing about $2.80 in my area.