No seriously not. This is a terrible idea. It's poisoning. It will foul the land and poison the water supply. I'm shocked by how many stupid comments this post has generated.
We would pay a farmer to take our contaminated soil. He would till it into his fields and use it as fertilizer.
Oil is just decomposed plants from millions of years ago. When spread out it is fine. There is bacteria that feed on oil and break it down into useable nutrients.
Motor oil picks up a variety of hazardous contaminants when used in engines and transmissions. These contaminants include lead, cadmium, chromium, arsenic, dioxins, benzene and polycyclic aromatics. If used motor oil and the contaminants it contains are disposed of inappropriately and released into the environment, they can harm humans, plants, animals, fish and shellfish.
In water, oil is a visible pollutant, floating as a scum on the surface. This oil scum can stop sunlight and oxygen from getting into the water, affecting fish and water plants. It can kill fish, frogs and other animals that breathe from the water's surface.
All true, in high concentration. If diluted enough it's easily consumed by certain bacteria.
I'm not suggesting you dump 5 quarts of oil in your backyard garden. You have to have a very low volume per acre to have the soil be farmable within one to two months.
Most of the ingredients you list are found in organic soil around the world.
No dude. Used motor oil is not used to make roads. Yes some petroleum based compounds are used in roads, but they are different, more stable compounds which wouldn't filter directly into your water supply the way used motor oil would. I thought this post would be funny to show how science can be wrong because it's so obvious that putting used motor oil into the ground is a terrible idea. Instead I've learned that our community has less common sense than I thought.
well I don't pour motor oil in post holes. just saying that we spray oil all over the place and it's not a problem. also I don't really buy that pouring a gallon of oil along a fence line or something is going to poison the water table, especially if it's a low water table.
Motor oil picks up a variety of hazardous contaminants when used in engines and transmissions. These contaminants include lead, cadmium, chromium, arsenic, dioxins, benzene and polycyclic aromatics. If used motor oil and the contaminants it contains are disposed of inappropriately and released into the environment, they can harm humans, plants, animals, fish and shellfish.
In water, oil is a visible pollutant, floating as a scum on the surface. This oil scum can stop sunlight and oxygen from getting into the water, affecting fish and water plants. It can kill fish, frogs and other animals that breathe from the water's surface.
"Back to the earth from whence you came, you black ass oil motha fucka!"
OIL RIGGA
It does come from the ground.
Some say it's actually the Earth's blood.
If it's a small enough amount you can till it into soil and it breaks down into fertilizer.
No seriously not. This is a terrible idea. It's poisoning. It will foul the land and poison the water supply. I'm shocked by how many stupid comments this post has generated.
We would pay a farmer to take our contaminated soil. He would till it into his fields and use it as fertilizer.
Oil is just decomposed plants from millions of years ago. When spread out it is fine. There is bacteria that feed on oil and break it down into useable nutrients.
Motor oil picks up a variety of hazardous contaminants when used in engines and transmissions. These contaminants include lead, cadmium, chromium, arsenic, dioxins, benzene and polycyclic aromatics. If used motor oil and the contaminants it contains are disposed of inappropriately and released into the environment, they can harm humans, plants, animals, fish and shellfish.
In water, oil is a visible pollutant, floating as a scum on the surface. This oil scum can stop sunlight and oxygen from getting into the water, affecting fish and water plants. It can kill fish, frogs and other animals that breathe from the water's surface.
All true, in high concentration. If diluted enough it's easily consumed by certain bacteria.
I'm not suggesting you dump 5 quarts of oil in your backyard garden. You have to have a very low volume per acre to have the soil be farmable within one to two months.
Most of the ingredients you list are found in organic soil around the world.
Doctors also fingered women to cure them of hysteria.
Well it works 🤷🏻♂️
well... lay down AB then have a thick oily layer of AC set down. but do it everywhere instead of a posthole. and that's how we get roads! 🎉
No dude. Used motor oil is not used to make roads. Yes some petroleum based compounds are used in roads, but they are different, more stable compounds which wouldn't filter directly into your water supply the way used motor oil would. I thought this post would be funny to show how science can be wrong because it's so obvious that putting used motor oil into the ground is a terrible idea. Instead I've learned that our community has less common sense than I thought.
well I don't pour motor oil in post holes. just saying that we spray oil all over the place and it's not a problem. also I don't really buy that pouring a gallon of oil along a fence line or something is going to poison the water table, especially if it's a low water table.
Motor oil picks up a variety of hazardous contaminants when used in engines and transmissions. These contaminants include lead, cadmium, chromium, arsenic, dioxins, benzene and polycyclic aromatics. If used motor oil and the contaminants it contains are disposed of inappropriately and released into the environment, they can harm humans, plants, animals, fish and shellfish.
In water, oil is a visible pollutant, floating as a scum on the surface. This oil scum can stop sunlight and oxygen from getting into the water, affecting fish and water plants. It can kill fish, frogs and other animals that breathe from the water's surface.
Your land do as you please.
Man who poisons the water supply hurts more than just himself
What part of "land" didn't you understand?
Do you not understand how the water table works?