Gothamist: Lukoil Blames Water-Tainted Gasoline for Damaging Cars

Snoopy

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:32:28 -0500

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?

wowthatsucks

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:53:19 -0500

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.

Snoopy

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:15:39 -0500

Reason enough to launch a nuclear attack on Russia.

sj

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:51:11 -0500

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.

Dave Hogarty

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:37:26 -0500

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.

dagblad

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 08:45:26 -0500

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.