stinky gas

[laxative]

Not farts. But a stupid question. Topped everything off about a week ago at some strange gas station somewhere (can't remember where). Haven't used much gas since. But I smell the cans every time I go near the truck. The gas reeks. My mowers smell like it, the cans smell like it, and the truck smells like it. Can't really explain the smell but it's stronger or more rotten than regular gas odor. Everything seems to run fine. What gives?

[Scagguy]

Sounds like you got some mexican gas with high sulphur content. Don't know how you would get that up there in your part of the country

[topsites]

Yup, cheap gas stinks like horse manure.

[DaughtryLC]

Yup, cheap gas stinks like horse manure.

Can I get SOME!!!

[Two Seasons]

You may have got the remnants of an ethanol load. Ethanol can only be transported by truck or rail because it corrodes the pipelines real bad. When a driver picks up a load of ethanol from the ethanol refinery, they add something to the ethanol to make it unusable if the truck is hi-jacked. Then the gas wagon driver delivers that ethanol with the stink to the tank farms to mix with the gas grades.

And you're right, it stinks real bad.

Anyway, if you got a load of gas that has ethanol mixed with it, chances are there was some of that stinky stuff in the bottom of the gas wagon when he picked up his load of gas for delivery to your station.

[laxative]

Good info. It's horrible. Be glad when it's gone.

[Keith]

Shell gas around here smells much worse than others. It also has almost a yellow oily look to it.

[newz7151]

Shell gas around here smells much worse than others. It also has almost a yellow oily look to it.

Maybe somebody's trying to stretch their supply by pissin in the supply tanks. :laugh:

[topsites]

Maybe somebody's trying to stretch their supply by pissin in the supply tanks. :laugh:

No.
That is the normal color of regular unleaded, yellow to orange.
The discoloration comes from impurities, crude petrol is black,
as the impurities are refined out the color turns lighter.

Try some BP Premium.
Clear, like water.

Best thing you've ever smelled, too :p

[Keith]

I bought some of the clearest 87 octane I have ever seen the other day. A former Exxon station that now has no brand on their sign. A little printed piece of paper on the top of the pumps says something like "We proudly sell Marathon ethanol-free fuels."

[ALC-GregH]

Sunoco premium is crystal clear. I used to use it in my Colman lanterns when buddies and me would go night fishing.

[ein999]

I would just go straight to mobil over in alaska or better yet hitch a ride out to saudia arabia. They have some of the cleanest gas out there. Make sure you dont light a cigarette while your filling up though.

[mngrassguy]

I have an unbranded station near me that sells "clear premium". No ethanol added. Last year up north all the regular unleaded gas in the area had a diesel smell to it. We noticed it from several stations from around where we hunt. It seamed to burn ok in the lanterns and generators. Mexican gas smells the same way.

[DA Quality Lawn & YS]

I have an unbranded station near me that sells "clear premium". No ethanol added. Last year up north all the regular unleaded gas in the area had a diesel smell to it. We noticed it from several stations from around where we hunt. It seamed to burn ok in the lanterns and generators. Mexican gas smells the same way.

MN - how do you know about Mexican gas?? You just get done eatin some:)

[mngrassguy]

I travel there a lot. Very funny.:laugh: