long term gasoline storage

dsula · Heavy Crude Joined: Jun 13, 2007 Posts: 140

Wow, that's a lot of information and ideas. Thanks. I like the wood gasification, I will have to check into that. Electric chainsaws are not powerful enough for a real job.
BTW I watched the movie of this guy with the electric tractor/golf cart/chainsaw and all. How does that work? One of those panels is 700W max output, on the tractor he has 4 of them. That will yield less than 4hp. Probably only going to work when riding downhill and at 2 miles/h.

wisconsin_cur · Moderator Joined: May 10, 2007 Posts: 2974

Mechman · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject: Re: long term gasoline storage

Hello

Yes, I would and did put multi-year old storage gas in my BMW and it worked fine without current or future problems - But I did store this multi-year old gasoline correctly in a all metal 5 gallon Jerry cans with fully tight cap and fuel preservative. I would not have used it if it showed signs of loss in volume or visible degradation. I now use 55 gallon steel drums along with 5 gallon Jerry cans.

Some real good links with real world applications:

Peakoil.com Forum Index -> Planning For The Future
[Transportation] Gasoline Containers and Storage
http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic28456.html

GAO report blackout
http://peakoil.com/fortopic28363.html

Stockpiling Gas?
http://peakoil.com/fortopic27916.html

US Gas shortage concern
http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic28676.html
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pup55 · Expert Joined: May 26, 2004 Posts: 3694

this was dredged up in another thread but I had to bump this up for this reason:

If you had done what I suggested and put your $2500 in FSENX at the time I suggested, the end of March 2007, you would have made $454, despite all of the market gyrations that happened since last July.

This would have paid for an additional 135 gallons of gas at the current price, or would have compensated for the price going up from $2.65 to $3.35 on 650 gallons of gas or so.

So the strategy more than worked for the average motorist who bought about 500 gallons of gas last year.

Now in the interest of full disclosure, if you had done it when I actually did it, which is about Halloween last year, you would have been a little worse than even, but I am patient and am sticking with it.

3aidlillahi · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:40 am Post subject: Re: long term gasoline storage

steam_cannon · Expert Joined: Dec 28, 2006 Posts: 2467 Location: MA

AgentR · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 6:52 pm Post subject: Re: long term gasoline storage

Just a recent observation...

20 gallons of gasoline + stabilizer, sitting in dark, hot, dreary shed, in grungy plastic fuel containers. 2 years pass by... Storm comes, lights go off, generator goes on, lights go on, computers go beep beep.

I type message on internet.

Generator ate it all up without complaint, I pulled the spark afterwards, and it showed no unpleasant signs of bad gas.

Not that anyone's paying attention to PO at the moment, considering how incredibly cheap oil has become (at $91/bbl) HAHA!
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mos6507 · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:05 pm Post subject: Re: long term gasoline storage

vilemerchant · Heavy Crude Joined: Jul 07, 2008 Posts: 121

I'm planning to store about 30 gallons. Long term storage isn't a concern as I'll be rotating it through my car's gas tank. Mixing 5 gallons of 2 month old fuel every other week into an otherwise full tank of fresh fuel shouldn't cause any problems I'm thinking.