Do you recommend storing gas?

[RCA]

Do you recommend storing gasoline?

I currently live in an apartment and don't have a practical place to store gas. I was just wondering if it would be a good thing to do if the shtf.

 

[Dr.3D]

I currently live in an apartment and don't have a practical place to store gas. I was just wondering if it would be a good thing to do if the shtf.

Gas or gasoline? Gasoline is hard to keep fresh enough. If kept for very long, it turns to turpentine. Even with stabilizers added to it, it doesn't keep very well.

Now gas, I keep around 1000 gallons of propane around most of the time. It runs my generator, furnace, cloths dryer and stove.

 

[acptulsa]

Very, very few individuals are equipped to properly store gasoline. Thing about the stuff, it isn't the liquid but the vapors that'll kill you. They expand with temperature--a lot--and they're among the most flammable vapors on the planet.

When the shtf your local gas station is more likely to be up and running than your fire insurance underwriter.

 

[Acala]

Not exactly

Gas or gasoline? Gasoline is hard to keep fresh enough. If kept for very long, it turns to turpentine. Even with stabilizers added to it, it doesn't keep very well.

It is true that gasoline will degrade. But it doesn't turn to turpentine!!! Turpentine is a pine tree extract.

 

[acptulsa]

But it doesn't turn to turpentine!!!

More like kerosene. In any case, your car's engine won't like it any better than turpentine.

If one must drive after tshtf I would recommend teaching your car to like ethanol and methanol.

 

[Kludge]

Get a motorbike if you're preparing for a SHTF scenario. Better maneuverability and incredibly better miles/gallon.

 

[Dr.3D]

It is true that gasoline will degrade. But it doesn't turn to turpentine!!! Turpentine is a pine tree extract.

True, I was just saying it turns into something like varnish. It is not good for the engine and thus should be avoided. Of course if you smell old gasoline, it will smell like turpentine.

 

[newyearsrevolution08]

why not do the old cooking oil and stockpile that crap, don't see that degrading but I could be wrong. I was thinking about doing that but don't have the place to refine it to test how effective and useful it could be for me.

 

[Dr.3D]

why not do the old cooking oil and stockpile that crap, don't see that degrading but I could be wrong. I was thinking about doing that but don't have the place to refine it to test how effective and useful it could be for me.

Bacteria will soon bode up the old oil being kept. You should see some of the old oil that was kept at General Motors. It smelled like crap. It was so bad smelling it would turn your stomach. If the bacteria doesn't get it, the oxygen in the air will. Virtually all oils kept in an oxygen atmosphere will start to become oxidized and become rancid. I suppose if the oil was sterilized and stored with very little head space in the container, you might be able to get away with keeping it for a while.

 

[acptulsa]

why not do the old cooking oil and stockpile that crap, don't see that degrading but I could be wrong. I was thinking about doing that but don't have the place to refine it to test how effective and useful it could be for me.

If the OP could use cooking oil, the OP would have a diesel and wouldn't even be interested in storing gasoline.

 

[Allen72289]

Store gasoline in a dark and cool place with air tight containers.

Use a fuel stabilizer and it will last 12 months.

http://www.goldeagle.com/sta-bil/faqs_stabil_detail.asp?product=sta-bil&ID=2

I've heard diesel lasts much longer than gasoline.

Filter used cooking oil and store it in a air tight contain away from light and heat. A drop of ethanol doesn'r hurt to kill off bacteria.

Methanol and ethanol can last for thousands of years if stored in an air tight container.

If this is not hedging against inflation but a shtf scenario I would buy an old 4 wheeler or off roaf gokart and install one of these http://www.greensteamengine.com which can run off anything as long as it will boil water. Wood etc. The engine costs aboult 150 bucks to build.

Or a horse.

 

[dsentell]

Get a moped, then you won't have to store as much . . . . .

 

[OptionsTrader]

One could buy UGA if you think gasoline is going up. Not a recommendation by any means, I'd rather be sellng it here, but to each his own progosis.

 

[asgardshill]

As long as I've got a gas can and an Arkansas credit card, I will never need to store gas. (Others will do it for me)

 

[jkm1864]

I am going to keep about 50 gallons for short term storage. I would think that it would be prudent to save up gas just to get out of dodge though. I don't want to be in the city when the banks fall it will be wild mahem.

 

[thebluedog]

It's quite true that the s could htf. Even during the great depression though, with extremely high unemployment, extreme deflation, banks failing, etc. The s didn't really htf in the respect that normal life didn't completely end as we know it. I think the best planning for the worst case scenario first involves excellent food and water storage and a way to protect it. Why would you try and get the hell out of town? Where would you go? I guess if you have a cabin somewhere with a bunch of food stored up where you can live indefinitely that's okay but IMO the reality is that we are still going to continue to live in communities like humans always have. If you can store some extra gasoline for the car, great. But I think a couple of tanks worth, just to keep you going in the case of temporary gas station closures, is plenty.

 

[Zippyjuan]

Gas storage can be pretty dangerous. Many apartment buildings (including mine) do not even allow any gas or barbecue grills kept on the premises over fire insurance issues. Get a bicycle. No gas needed.