| Ethanol and gasoline [message #207419] |
Sat, 11 May 2013 19:57  |
kingd
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In some jurisdictions, it has been mandated by law, that all new in-ground gasoine storage tanks at gas stations cannot be steel and must be fiberglas. I believe this may also be retro acrive to existing stations and also applies to existing stations doing major (or minor) upgrades.
It has now been discovered that although the fiberglas was basically impervious to gasoline, ethanol laced gasoline is slowly dissolving the resin in the fiberglas. Some tanks are leaking. The dissolved resin is ending up in the customer vehicles. At this time there is no known useable alternative to the fiberglas tanks(I guess stainless steel would work ??)(at what cost ?)
There is currently NO plan in Ontario to force the replacement of the fiberglas tanks !!!
DAVE KING
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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