Aluminum fuel tanks can corrode in a marine environment, though much depends on how well they are protected belowdecks from salt water. Shielded from briny water, tanks can last forever, but on some ...

When Congress passed the 2005 Energy Bill, the legislation included a mandate that oil refiners increase the percentage of corn-based ethanol they add to their gasoline products. Bill supporters ...

This Safety Alert highlights the critical importance of preventing water intrusion into fuel tanks. The U.S. Coast Guard ...

tank inlets to reduce fuel spills in the harbor. In a letter dated Dec. 15, Councilman Tod Ridgeway asked Rep. Chris Cox (R-Newport Beach) and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) to assist the ...

A fisherman in Australia made a costly blunder when he went to fill up the gas tank of his boat at a 7-Eleven in West Pennant Hills, New South Wales. He mistook a rod holder for the gas tank, and the ...

State ecology officials were hoping to secure the fuel tanks Saturday of a fishing vessel that had taken on water and had to be abandoned near Grays Harbor. Coast Guard crews rescued three fishermen ...