When the late Igor and I were camphosts for the USNFS, we had a generator, and found that we were, really, self-sufficient...as long as we had gasoline and MREs, which were just then becoming “popular,” if I may use the word.
I’m glad you are reaching the “I don’t need you, Gumint!” stage in your life!
At this point in my life, I would like an Airstream and whatever else I need to make a home wherever I wanted to park. I really DO miss those days!
I remember a story of a computer data center that successfully went to generator backup, only to have the generator fail within 10 minutes of the switchover. When power was restored the supreme potentate of the data center was furious. Hadn't the backup been tested? Absolutely it had been tested. They'd faithfully tested that generator every month for three years. Then how did it fail? It ran out of fuel. It seems that nobody bothered to check the level after each of those faithful tests, and the tests ran it down to where it only had ten minutes' worth of fuel left.