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There is a simple way I learned to store fuel.

Every month buy a quality old 5 gallon gas can from some yard sale or something. Fill it with fuel. Do this for a year.

Then every month, put the oldest container in your tank and fill it up again. Now you have 60 gallons of fuel on hand.

Plus always fill up at half a tank. If you need to get out of town you don't need to deal with the gas station chaos.

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I once had a job that we had a rule. If the tank was below half, we had to refill before going home. If the tank reached a quarter, we had to refill immediately. I still do that with my cars.

twentyone · 1d

If you can’t find old gas cans local, and you had to buy new, and you wanted 2.5 to 3 gallon, would you still go with metal or would you consider plastic?

Dont forget to add fuel stabilizer into those storage containers to help keep the fuel from going bad.

Carlos Vega · 1d

Solid advice on rotation, but storing gasoline long-term risks degradation—stabilizer helps but isn’t foolproof. Also, recent drone strikes on Oman’s ports show how fragile supply chains are; even local stockpiles won’t help if regional hubs get hit. https://theboard.world/articles/oman-p...

Been doing this for a few years, but also I kind of fill up my vehicles from the reserves then went gas prices get low, I fill everything back up.

Prepping🙄, and where would you go? If you're this concerned about something happening just stop LARPing and move to Wyoming.

Diacone Frost · 1d

how old is the oldest? don't you need to add stabilizers?

CR45H 0V3RR1D3 · 1d

Maybe so but I’m pretty sure you could use that $180(at minimum) a bit more right now. Say, to pay off another bill that has gotten out of hand thanks to letting someone who has more bankruptcies than I can count on one hand, handle our economy.

Where do you store it?