Find a container that's easy to move:
Posted on 06/30/2015 5:25:21 PM PDT by Kartographer
It was a seemingly normal Sunday — except it was anything but normal.
For many people in Athens, it was time to prepare for an approaching storm. A short walk from Plaka, a line of people waited to withdraw cash from an A.T.M., hours before the official announcement that banks would be closed starting on Monday. Some bank machines in central Athens had run out of money or were out of service, as screens blamed “technical difficulties.”
Elsewhere, some people had started hoarding gasoline and groceries. “We don’t know what the new day will bring,” said Katerina Vorreadi, who was among a group of retirees waiting in line outside the National Bank of Greece on Saturday night.
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I use several 30 gallon metal drums and Marine Grade Stabil. I use the 5 gallon cans for moving the fuel to the vehicles or generators. Get a flexi funnel as the cans don’t pour well. I rotate my gas yearly-ish.
We call it all stocked up.
Same happened to me. They don’t handle temperature cycling very well.
Preparing before. Stockpiling before.
Hoarding only occurs after, and then only if someone’s trying to take more than a limited amount item.
Find a container that's easy to move:
For a buried tank you probably need a permit and it probably wont be cheap.
Your best bet is 55 gal drums in an open but covered shed.
Keep the drums off of the dirt and tilt them with a brick or piece of board so any water runs off and not stand on the top. Turn the drums before tilting so the 2 openings are to the side not to the top and bottom of the tilt.
I could see this coming 2 months ago, why didn’t people withdraw ALL their assets then???
This is the link to the economist’s blog:
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-warren-buffett-economy-why-its-days-are-numbered-part-4/
Best Choice Products® 30 Gallon Gas Caddy Tank Storage Drum Barrel Gasoline Fluid Diesel Carrier Pump
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Choice-Products%C2%AE-Storage-Gasoline/dp/B008CFTL64
We’ve been considering a few of these.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/381085085362?lpid=82&chn=ps
But I figure 6 at $28.00 ea. that is $168.00 vs $150.00 and you have a pump. But it’s all in what you want.
Don’t forget the $70 shipping on that pump too. That’s a considerable percentage of the cost. But, I showed it to my hubby and he said he’d keep it in the back of his mind.
I just saw a movie, "Woman in Gold". It was interesting watching her wedding where her uncle was warning them all to get out of Austria and they were telling him that they were not ready yet.
In the end only the daughter and son in law got out with the clothes on their backs. Mom and Dad were left behind.
If they had grabbed what they could after the wedding and fled at that moment they would have lived.
Here’s what Rush linked to, from his transcript...
http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-warren-buffett-economy-why-its-days-are-numbered-part-4/
The money quote is quite a ways down the page.
(Sorry to hear about your A/C and the 104º heat, publius)
C’mon now, find your inner Share Bear.
Just curious why would you spend that much money on fuel storage?
You can get a good used 55 gal drum for about $15-$25.
It’s emergency use not constant use so you don’t need a pump just a $5-$10 brass faucet or a valve and a couple of pieces of pipe. Turn the drum on it’s side and pick it up high enough to put a transfer container under the faucet.
If you want to go on the cheap get a piece of garden hose and siphon the fuel out into a transfer container.
You would have 55 gal of fuel for what your spending on storage without the fuel.
It's called the "Normalcy Bias".
I love the phrase “normalcy bias.” It is so perfect. It goes with “outrage fatigue” as one of the great coinages of our time.
Another: “headless nails,” to describe the unidentifiable Obama-kissing people in our many agencies who will be impossible to find and dislodge by the next president.
I like the set up as safer and easier to move and handle. I don’t want to be wrestling a 55 gallon drum full of gasoline, but to each there own. I know a few people who still can’t understand why no one wants to drive a stick any more even though it clearly has its advantages I don’t. Just as a lot of AR people don’t understand why I have a AK.
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