This oil-disposal tip was in Popular Science magazine in 1963

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[–]Brewdabier 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I welded two 55 gallon drums dug a hole and put them in, metal grate on top and used it for 25 + years.

[–]Musky[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I was talking to a petroleum engineer about this and they said when they have spills, they're mandated to drill test wells to check the contamination, and in 5 years the levels are undetectable.

It goes back to whence it came apparently.

[–]Brewdabier 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If you could go to any military base in the US and head over to the motor pool you would see how they use chemicals all day long the goes straight into the ground like paint stripping and then there's the fuel island where gas and diesel is dumped. I was flying over Catalina island a couple years ago and say a navy ship dumping 55 gallon barrels in the water so government is not to concerned.

[–]Zapped 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Ha. I worked a site where fuel had been leaking into the ground for years. You could put a scoop of dirt in a cup and it would hold a flame if ignited. They had to pay for a semi-permanent environmental testing station kept on site. It may have also been able to pull some of the contamination out of the ground. It was there for at least 10 years.

[–]SueBoyle 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

One day people will come to understand that we have completely screwed up our environment.

The bees are dying. We have water shortages. Our air is polluted. Our fish have microplastics in their flesh.

About 90% of the world's population must be exterminated or we will all suffer and that is exactly what our governments are doing right now the vaccine was phase 1 of the new Holocaust.

[–]Zapped 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Without people, the environment would correct itself in just a few years, with maybe nuclear sites as the exception. Even suppressing wildfires changes the landscapes and ecosystems.