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Re:The Engineering Behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve by robocat on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:52AM (#49739446)
Diesel has limited shelf life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial_contamination_of_die...

  Fuel companies state that untreated fuel will remain usable for only one year, after which fuel contamination ("the diesel bug") begins to appear
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Re:The Engineering Behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve by jaggederest on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:17PM (#49745274)
Typically, though, the diesel bug only happens in the interface between the water and the fuel itself, so if you have a proper filter and separator on the pumping system it won't be a factor.

Gasoline, when it goes bad, goes bad from top to bottom and is not recoverable through e.g. a centrifuge like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Fdu3e4gYw

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