Distilling Stale Gasoline to Make it Usable Again

Pouring the resulting distillate for testing. (Credit: Lowered Expectations, YouTube) The propensity of gasoline to ‘go stale’ through the process of oxidation is the reason why gasoline that has been stored for a long period of time is considered to be unusable, as it will no longer combust property. Since this process creates the sludge that you find in the bottom of an old gasoline canister, it follows that you may be able to distill out the still good gasoline.