Posted on 08/16/2010 4:32:53 PM PDT by onona
Is Google broken? Worst vanity/lazy ever!
The 2-yr-old gas in the shed was fine for your lawn mower, sure. But did you put it in your vehicle? Did it stay cool or was this in a shed that got a lot of sun? Just askin’
Kinda what I was thinking. Just didn’t know if anyone had gone longer with other....
You raise a very interesting question. Please post your solution as I am very interested. Particularly for gas with ethonol in it.
In the past I have successfully stored gasoline for one year in HDPE containers & adding “Stabil” stabilizer. Constantly rotate your gasoline out, mixing an old 5 gal container with a fresh tank of gas every few months. Store in a cool, safe area.
Make sure it has no ethanol in it, and it will keep fine for two years in the regular plastic cans.
I keep thirty gallons on hand like that, rotating them as I need gas for lawn mowers, etc.
Above is your only right answer: buy a diesel and store diesel. And, if the SHTF, you can find home heating oil and dead semi fuel tanks. If you must store gas, you have to buy a 3000 gal tank and a truck to mount it on and a place to park it.
Why risk it for a couple gallons?
ha ha, thank you for the laugh. True dat !
Standard containers for the storage of gasoline will be more than adequate. Like an earlier poster mentioned, use a stabilizer. I use Sta-Bil year round in all of my powered devices like mowers, weed whackers and generators. I will pull the generator out every 6 months and go through an entire tank whether needed or not.
Being in a hurricane area I can connect my generator back fed to the house with the main breaker pulled and power our fridge, fans and DirecTV with enough left over to power a small window air conditioner for the small room (used only for emergencies)
Is the vehicle you plan on using this in fuel injected?
I have used Stabil but prefer PRI-G. Depending on “summer” gas and ethanol content you may have to add dry gas to keep the condensation issues under control. Google PRI-G and fuel revitalization.
Try searching this site. Lot’s of prep info. I am sure this question is answered there.
For safety reasons, I recommend that you use only metal containers. Gasoline available today, stored for two years may not be usable. Consider AV 100LL or butanol. AV 100LL will coat a catalytic converter, making it useless and don’t use it for multi-fuel cook stoves. For a SHTF scenario, for use in vehicles, who cares. For any other application like lawnmower, weed-eaters, generators, it offers many benefits.
If you do, you should get an inflammable storage cabinet that will run you in the 500-600 dollar range. If you add additives, you are adding an addition 50 cent to a dollar cost on your gas. Is it worth it?
NO to the plastic septic tanks...Depending on your state, ( Ag exemption and all) you can usually install a double wall fiberglass tank up to 500 gallons without permits and other regulatory stuff. It must be bedded and backfilled with pea gravel. You may also want to anchor it, fuel is lighter than water and those tanks will float!
Anyhow, you will need a few bucks to install one...
That's fine for a single vehicle and I do that, but for the poster that may not be a practical solution.
I also have a need for gas storage so my solution was to build a concrete block structure for gas can storage, vented and covered in dirt 18" deep.
Welded up a door frame and 1/4 steel plate for a door.
All stuff I had around the place.
That gives me gas for generators, the 4wheeler, the wife's car, and the tractor,etc..
Additionally, no vehicle or piece of equipment is ever allowed to get more than 1/4 tank lower than full...we probably have 300 gallons of gas on the place as I write this and 350 gallons of diesel.
I'll be putting in an underground storage for gas later this year, but the problem is still stabilization...I use Sta-bil(tm) and rotate gas out every 6-9months...never had a problem.
To the OP, if you're looking to store gas for a getaway to a safer place, the gas cans are enough, just rotate the fuel...if you're going to stay in place and defend, it's a different story...
You better have a good understand of the permitting required and double-wall tanks with leak detection if you want to bury gasoline.
And you should expect it to go bad over time.
500 gals. is the line for most states for installation on a farm. overfill prevent( 95% ), monitor wells, internal and interstice monitoring are up to the owner, but a good idea... May be required if you get subsidized...
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