Used oil question
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Used oil question
What exactly is it about used oil that makes it toxic to be poured on the ground? I have heard something about carbon or something. If that is the case is it safe to pour clean oil on the ground? (I never do this, it is just a scerio)
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Its not so much just pouring used oil on the ground, its pouring any oil. The reason you always hear the used oil bit is cause no one would pour perfectly good new motor oil on the ground or storm drain. You are not supposed to pour or let any chemical absorb into the ground cause it contaminates the water supply. We constantly reuse water, water is evaporated and falls back to earth as rain and mother nature has no way of filtering it from such chemicals. Not to mention the vegatation, and animals it has the potential to kill, all cause someone was too damn lazy to go to their local wally world or auto parts store and dump their used oil where it can be recycled.
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Best part is they say never pour used or other oils on the ground yet if I call the county to applly dust reduction on the gravel road in front of my house they come out with a tanker and spray road oil on the gravel. Now this stuff looks, and smells exactly like the used oil I pull out of my PSD, and they apply more in one time than I drain out of my truck in a year, so I guess the answer is it's only not ok for private citizens to say take thier used oil and spray it on the gravel roads, but if you pay the goverment they will spray thier used oil on the gravel roads, and that is ok. Maybe used goverment oil doesn't pollute the ground water hmm yeah thats it.
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I thought spraying roads with oil was outlawed for everyone 12 years ago. I have a question about asphault. Isnt a major component of it an oil product, and does that get into the water?
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tar is the component and rubber is used here also form tires. tar does not seep like oil. oil spraying was outlawed almost 15 years ago here. but is common in a few areas i know of.
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it may be outlawed but I can promise you that stuff they spray isn't tar, it's oil. Tar will stick to the rocks on top but oil will not and this stuff will seep down and it's very runny, and smells like used motor oil from a diesel, funny thing the county has all diesels imagine that.
the stuff they put down for asphalt is a derivative of diesel fuel, and tar mixed.
BTW do you know what the number one contaminant of ground water in inland areas is? heres a hint, it's not fertilizer, herbisides, pesticides, oil or petrolium products, or even antifreeze.
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it's prescription drugs, mainly estrogen, and pegesteron (spl?) you know birth control. mixed with, in smaller quantities of other perscription drugs like heart drugs. Why you ask because sewage treatment plants don't break this stuff down, and neither does your body so it's still intact after it has passed through both you, and the treatment plant then the solids are sprayed onto fields and rain water leaches it into the ground water.
the stuff they put down for asphalt is a derivative of diesel fuel, and tar mixed.
BTW do you know what the number one contaminant of ground water in inland areas is? heres a hint, it's not fertilizer, herbisides, pesticides, oil or petrolium products, or even antifreeze.
give up?
it's prescription drugs, mainly estrogen, and pegesteron (spl?) you know birth control. mixed with, in smaller quantities of other perscription drugs like heart drugs. Why you ask because sewage treatment plants don't break this stuff down, and neither does your body so it's still intact after it has passed through both you, and the treatment plant then the solids are sprayed onto fields and rain water leaches it into the ground water.
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it's prescription drugs, mainly estrogen, and pegesteron (spl?) you know birth control. mixed with, in smaller quantities of other perscription drugs like heart drugs. Why you ask because sewage treatment plants don't break this stuff down, and neither does your body so it's still intact after it has passed through both you, and the treatment plant then the solids are sprayed onto fields and rain water leaches it into the ground water.
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Haha I'm 18.. I'm just saying I was at a football game last year and saw this girl and she was wearing something.. that 21 year old girls would wear to a club.. and she looked really good, I asked a friend who she was and that's when I found out she was a 14 year old 8th grader. She looked 19, and the thing is, she's not the only one that I've seen like that. There are a lot!
