[Shop-talk] in ground oil tank

[Mark Miller]

I agree that any tank should be removed while the liability is someone
else's.  If you are planning to take it out anyway there is nothing to be
gained except the value of the oil, not insignificant but. . . would you go
two years without fire insurance to save the same amount?

And one correction to a reply: it isn't 
" The environmentalists have made this process nothing less than
catastrophic if you don't have insurance (or if your coverage doesn't cover
the clean up.' it's the environment.  600 gallons of oil in one spot into
the local water table is not a good way to make friends with your new
neighbors.  It could easily spread a good ways and screw up quite a few
wells (and probably septic systems as well, killing the good stuff).

Mark Miller