To stock up on gasoline or not !

If you can find "Recreational" Fuel, you can stock up on that. It has a much longer shelf life, I have been told up to 4 years even.

Regular automotive gas will go bad in a few months. It will still burn, but not like it should. Modern vehicles may have issues with it.

Many older vehicles have steel gas tanks, that if you only fill it halfway, the ethanol in the gas will condense on the sides and top of the tank, eventually pitting the tank, creating a hole.

Added ethanol is the standard in gasoline now, for all grades. There is a requirement to state that it doesn't have ethanol in it. So, if your local gas station doesn't have a sticker on the pump stating that there is 10% ethanol in it, don't worry it's all there.

Recreational fuel is recommended for all small engines, especially chainsaws. And don't forget to add the special oil additive to chainsaw gas. Even pour a little out to make certain that it has the blue dye in it, or purchase the Motofuel by Stihl, it's made with 95% paraffin gasoline. It has so much paraffin in it that you can smell it when you run your saw. The exhaust gasses will smell like candle wax. It's pricey, but replacing the saw is more expensive than the fuel you run in it.

Does gas ever expire, like food products? Just curious.

Here gas is $1.94.

Uh, your wrong, you're thinking of diesel.

The market is flooded with gasoline. While so many people are out of work, they aren't burning any gas anyways.

Recreational fuel that is 100% gasoline is about $1 more per gallon. We have no fuel in Michigan that is ethanol free, even the premium 92 octane has ethanol in it.

Fill up at least. Only reason there would be a fuel shortage is a shortage if truckers to make deliveries and maybe lack of enough support staff at distribution. But with quaratine no one should be out doing a lot of driving. I think most stations need at least 2 deliveries a day.

For storing, ONLY get the 100% gasoline and NOT the 10 or
15% ethanol. Ethanol absorbs water and spoils the gasoline
at a much higher rate.

$1.45 per gallon here.

The more refined a gas product is, the faster it goes bad.

- Keronsene will last 5+ years untreated
- Diesel a year +
- Gasoline several months

Use a fuel stabilizer to lengthen that time. Kerosene can last a decade or more, Diesel 5-10 years (use an anti bacterial too), and gas with Stabil brand is good for a 1.5-2 years. I use PRI-G stabilizer, which I know lasts 3 years in a can, but others claim as much as 5 years. These are all conservative estimates.

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Good point.

The President and Governors keep saying we are at war..even though the enemy is invisible. During WWII gas was rationed and people put their vehicles up on blocks because of the rationing and rubber was needed so they surrendered tires.

It's not a case of shortages, but more of forced closures of station chains to preserve stocks and keep travel at a minimum.

I took this into account last week and stocked up just to be safe. On top of that we have bad spring weather coming here soon, and there are ALWAYS outages in my area so I have plenty of stock for the genny.

Most stoves (if any???) don't use gasoline as far am I am aware. Liquid fuel stoves for backpacking are usually some sort of alochol/ethanol. At least the ones I use are. There are propane/butane ones out there as well.

Gasoline will probably be around in abundance due to no one driving so getting gas for lawn mower won't be an issue. If electricity goes, then yes you won't be able to get gas to mow your lawn, but you would have bigger problems.

Every gas can I have is full...Gator..full...4 Runner....full...generator...full....doesn't hurt any to be ready....

Alkylate petrol/gasoline.

Look into it, I have used atleast 5-6 years old alkylate in my chainsaws no issue at all.

It's nice to have a dual fuel car in times like this.

Do you know how long Stabil-360 will keep. I don't mean the treated gas, but I have a bottle of Stabil that is at least two years old. Is it still good?

Are you planning on driving across the country? Just keep your tank full

Just filled up my two spare snow mobile gas containers that i haven't used in years..

As everything is some thing out of a Alice in Wonderland story now..

Get prepped first and ask questions later; to any thing and everything associated with you and your families life...

Just bought me some of that PRI-G off Amazon....thanks for the heads up.

Some people use plastic bags instead.


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No problem. Just trying to give back to the board. God knows how much info I have gleaned from others posts.

Just talked with a local gas station owner. Yes, he owns his station and sells non-ethanol gas.

I asked him about the fuel supply. He said there is so much fuel in reserve, his suppliers are bugging him to buy gas he can't even store as his fuel tanks are to capacity.

He also mentioned there has been a buildup of reserves the past year.

War with China is coming.

WOW! No words for that type of tardedness. Just fucking WOW!

Jesus Christ this madness.

It is standard protocol for military
(and preppers) to be stocked on fuel. Go follow some of the ex. special forces guys on instagram and see what they've said for years.

Of course you should fucking have gas. It doesn't mean we're going to run out. It means if your ass has to move and you don't have a backup, it doesn't fucking matter if the gas stations have gas or not, YOU'RE FUCKED.

Hell yeah, you know why? Cuz gas so lean ....corny joke 'o the day