@uhoh I'm glad the community reopened this, I'll not intervene but I'm curious. Remove the "Said by an aerospace engineer", and the fact that it happens to be about jet fuel when we boil down to just the question "From a microbe's point of view, besides the calorie content of the carbohydrates (hydrocarbons) what are the trace components of jet fuel from which microbes derive nutritional value, and which of their byproducts is causing the fuel tank corrosion?"

How is that aviation related?

@Someone perhaps you'd like to comment?

@Jamiec I left a lengthy reply to that comment there 1, 2

Moved this to its own chat here - very interesting and important discussion: chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/146254/…

@Someone if you wanted to comment please do so in that other channel. thanks