We never fill the cars with gas until they're at 1/4 full. Topping-off is one cause contributing toward gasoline shortages.
"We never fill the cars with gas until they're at 1/4 full. Topping-off is one cause contributing toward gasoline shortages."
Good way to trash your engine rather quickly, as it encourages condensation on the inside of your gas tank, which mixes with the fuel, and causes your engine to run poorly. Better put some Heet in there if you intend to follow that practice for long. Better yet, fill it at 3/4th of a tank, and avoid the problem. Not to mention that if you need to leave, suddenly, you'll be able to do so. Even my 40mpg VW Golf won't go all that far on a quarter tank.
Just as the Amish? and others practice keeping a year's amount of food on hand in case of poor harvest,bad weather,sickness is sensible.If everyone ,including businesses. was encouraged to keep ample supplies of fuel,goods, and medicines on hand then price gouging,radical peaks and valleys in supply and demand would be evened out.
Unfortuneately, high taxes on inventory and high interest rates encourage the just barely enough for today scheme. So our economy and our very lives are always in an unnecessarily precarious position.
I would define reasonable storage as that amount of "whatever" that you will or have historically used in a past year ,taking into account changes . City codes and the switch to utilities in place of individual coal cellars and oil tanks prevent most people from having heat in a winter disaster.