Above ground tanks leak sooner than underground tanks,,,
especially in bad climates, with frequent freezing
and thawing, and rusting and flaking, especially at
the semi-welded seams and jury-rigged fittings.
But, the expensive part of clean-up of toxic fuel spills
is cleaning the contaminated dirt. And, you can't just
pump&dump it, like toxic stock. You must pay, big bucks,
to have it hauled, in approved and frequently inspected,
leak-free, sealed container trucks, by licensed drivers.
And, pay more big bucks to deliver the contaminated dirt
to a hazardous waste cleaning facility.
And, as you remove the contaminated dirt, you must pay a
licensed soil engineer, to take measurements, and tell you
that you must remove more dirt, until you reach uncontaminated
dirt. And, the more measurements he takes, the more he
charges. So, he always does a perfect job of detecting the
last drop of contamination. Kinda like termite inspectors.
They always find some, even if they 'accidentally' bring them
along from their previous job site.
You may have noticed that The U.S. has been very slow in
selling off the land from recently closed DoD Military Bases.
And, they probably never will. Because if costs many times
more to clean up the jet-fuel spills [and other/worse stuff],
than they will ever get back from selling the land. Remember
the 'Love Canal' spill, from the 1980's. It's still vacant
land. And, no one is even trying to clean it up anymore.
It's not worth it. So, it's worthless. But, a privately
owned, contaminated, and still leaking, never-profitable,
bio-diesel rusty old tank farm, is worth way less than zero.
Because the Green police can require the clean-up, at any
cost, to the new owner, if the old owner dumps it in time.
Maybe that's why the old owner is trying to sell it. It's
not even worth giving away, once the Green police find out
where it is 'hidden'. They would probably be 'interested'
in seeing those 'pictures' of the rusted tank/leak farm.
SWVC gets more interesting + educational every day,
including weekends, when it can't even trade.
Within 18 months, SWVC may be having a run of very long
weekends, followed by a permanent vacation.
But, what do we know. We could be all wrong about what we
see as fatal flaws, 'hidden' under ever rock that flips out.
We thought we were wrong about one of our recently predicted
pink penny plungers, but, as it turned out, we were misteaken.
