How do YOU start your campfire?

Didn't that oil come from the dirt originally? It probably has a little carbon mixted in now, but carbon is found everywhere too. It may discolor the dirt a little, but I don't see the problem.

bigred1cav wrote:
Let oil soak in ground to contaminate earth and ground water.

Veebyes wrote:
Method for burning a yard fire. Pour a few gsllons of used motor oil onto the pile at least a week before intended burn. On burning day add a couple more gallons of old motor oil plus whatever else flammable is in the garage like that mixture of mineral spirits, acetone, laquer thinners anything else that went into that trash plastic gallon container. Follow that with just a little dash of gas (it is $10 gal around here) & a match.

Watch in satisfaction at a fire well primed.