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After dozens of cars broke down after getting gas from a few Lukoil stations in NJ, the Russian-owned company explained, "Our company experienced water contamination issues at six northern New Jersey stations [caused by] excessive concentrations of water in storage tanks at an exchange partner's terminal."
Lukoil offered to pay for damages to all vehicles affected by the bad gas and will reimburse motorists for rental cars (call 877-858-9962 for more info). Stalled cars were all over roads in Bergen, Essex and Monmouth counties during the evening rush hour, with drivers waiting hours for tow trucks to become available.
According to Lukoil spokesman George Wilkins, the problem seemed to occur just as gas distributors switched from "winter-blends of gas to summer gas - a federal requirement to help stem pollution. The switchover often requires the cleaning of gas storage tanks."
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That may be true about the cleaning of gas tanks during the switch-over, but I honestly don't think residual moisture from scrubbing a container could lead to the breakdown of so many vehicles.
Watered-down gas sold at nearly $4.00/gallon would pad their pockets real pretty, though. I bet they got just a bit too greedy with their mix.
There were so many hilarious euphemisms in the stories that I read, it's hilarious. "The gas was adulterated with an excess mix of H20." Translation: it was watered down. "Customers noticed that the fuel from pump had a colorless odorless character." Translation: they were pumping water.
You can't water down gas. Gas and water don't mix. Water is heavier than gas and will sink to the bottom of the tank. Cars have their fuel pickups at the bottoms of their tanks. Any water put into the tank will be the first thing picked up by the fuel pump and sent to the engine and engine will not run as all those Lukoil customers found out the other day.
If they really put water in their gas on purpose, this would be happening every day.
Reason enough to launch a nuclear attack on Russia.
The distributor was probably cleaning/flushing their storage tanks and someone probably did not empty the tank before they filled it with the summer mix.
If they have a winter blend and a summer blend why don't they have a spring blend therefore no need to flush the tanks. DUH?