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You know what? Screw it. You just go ahead and stick to your logical fallacies and the utter fatuity of scrubbing an oil stain off the asphalt. I've got better things to do than argue with a brick.
Here is my response to all this. First thank you for suggestions. Secondly, here's a reason why a person would clean an oil spill off asphalt. We live in a condo with an HOA. We have an asphalt carport with oil drips from our vehicle. While I agree that cleaning oil off an area that is made with oil seems silly. However, our HOA demands it be cleaned up or we face fines and/or expensive cleanup. So we need to clean it stupid or not
Why are you so concerned about this anyway? Let the asphalt absorb it.
This^^^ Asphalt is a petroleum based product, a little more oil won't hurt anything and will disappear in a pretty short time. On concrete, yeah, I'd do something about it, but on asphalt, I wouldn't waste a lot of time fighting it.
eta-OOPs...posted before reading the above (#37) post. Replace the idiots on the HOA board.
Asphalt is made of oil, and the asphalt turns from black to gray as the oil evaporates out.
Your oil spot actually replaced some of the oils lost over time by your asphalt, and it won't hurt a thing to leave it there. Eventually the oil from that spot will disperse through the asphalt and the spot will fade. Using some kitty litter to absorb the oil will help speed up the process.
If you absolutely can't stand to look at the spot, you could cover your whole driveway with asphalt sealant to make it look new again.....or you could take the redneck approach and squeegee your old engine oil over the whole driveway on a nice hot day.
I like that idea! I have plenty of used engine oil. I usually save it for starting slash fires in the winter, but this sounds like an equally good use for it.
Would it be possible or affordable to have the asphalt re-sealed?
It looks better when it's done, and you won't even notice oil spills on there (for a while at least). My local Kroger does this every year and it somehow keeps the parking lot looking reasonably well.
You can and should be filling in the cracks now with that compound, then seal it up before winter.
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