While this method is tried and true, it's not at all clean, and not entirely safe. They imagine themselves sucking on a long tube with one end shoved deep into the fuel filler hole of their vehicle, hoping they can get the tube out of their mouth and into a bucket before the gas hits their lips. When most people think about siphoning gas out of a car or truck's gas tank, an ugly picture comes to mind. Let's get back to talking about how to safely get bad gas out of your tank before you let it gum up your engine's works. Consumer Reports details some of their findings pertaining to E15 (15% ethanol mixture) gasoline. Where old, ethanol-free gas took years to become unusable, new E10 (10% ethanol) fuel can go bad in just a few months. Ethanol-enhanced fuel has been causing serious problems in both large and small engines. The addition of Ethanol to automotive fuel has changed the gasoline game for the worse. These days bad gas has become everyone's problem. But for the most part bad gas was a problem that affected people like farmers and antique car guys who let things sit for a long, long time then tried to take a shortcut by not cleaning the old fuel out of the tank or engine before they tried to bring some piece of internal combustion equipment back to life. It was rare to accidentally end up with bad gas in your fuel tank, although there were always reports floating around of people who filled their tank with bad gas right from the gas station's pump. In the old days, "bad gas" meant fuel that was years old, contaminated with water, or was full of solid debris. The most common reason these days is bad gas. There are a number of reasons that you may find it necessary to drain all of the fuel out of your gas tank.
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