Fuel Storage

I read from time to time folks saying you can't store gasoline over 6 months, others a year.....just no way longer.

Baloney.

I regularly store it 3-4 years, and I dug out a drum this afternoon from Aug 2013 (when gas was $3.35/gal here). I normally try to rotate fuel a bit more than that, but I slipped around and let that one get by me. Pretty sure that's the longest I've personally stored gasoline and can vouch for.

I'm getting a delivery in my 500gal tank that I use for stuff around the place, plus fill the car/truck from time to time if it's handier or cheaper than current town prices. Last fill of the big tank was June 2017....and it's an open vented tank.....so it goes 2 years just fine in that type of tank....with preservative.

I DO use, and highly recommend, PRI-G for storage. (4 ounces/55gal when it goes into storage, another 4 per 55gal when I pump it into the 500gal overhead tank) When I cracked that nearly 6 year old drum open, it smelled just like fresh gas....no 'varnishy' smell at all. I put three drums in the big tank, and will have the Co-op fill the rest of it (335gal) with fresh gas (non-ethanol) just to play it safe, but I have used long stored gas directly in vehicles with no problem in the past.



I normally store 6 drums of gasoline, and 9 drums of diesel fuel in addition to whatever is in the gravity feed 500gal gasoline tank and 300 gallon diesel tank.

 

Your place and projects always look 110% professional. You make most of us look like complete hacks. Congratulations sir!

 

Thanks.....of course bear in mind you're only viewing the 2nd or 3rd time I done something after the first screwup or two.....ahahhaaaaa I keep hoping the day will come I get it right the first dad gum time.

 

I think you can push it a bit longer in sealed drums.

Look up my long term fuel storage posts. I'm way beyond 3 years. I still have a couple of the lost cans in the barn, and they must be nearing 7 years old. BG CF5 at 4 ounces to 5 gallons and Stabil at 2x recommended dose seem to work beyond five years. BG claims their CF5 will maintain gasoline "indefinitely."

Here's 37 months. Long term gasoline storage experiment - 37 months

The really old stuff was in a thread called "You can't do that!" Maybe somebody can track it down.

Nice storage rig.

 

I have used gas stored over two years with no problem. I do add a dose of Stabil Marine every six months or so. Combination of steel and plastic jerrycans.

 

@TnAndy You think that 'PRI-G' is better than STA-BIL? I ask because I have heard others say so...

 

Well, I tried Stabil (it was the red version, don't think they had a blue then), and after a year, a drum smelled like varnish. So, yes, I think PRI does a lot better job. That's my experience with them.

 

I could never find Pri-G locally, else I would have tried it.

 

Amazon.com: Pri-G

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008V25RUC/?tag=survivalmonke-20

 

Our fuel has jumped up 30 cents in a week or so . I stocked all ready .
I hear it might double over summer . then the crash happens , low fuel price is to keep the crap a foat .

 

May find out how the stabil works.. Have some gas cans sitting over the winter with stabil in them.. Couldn't find Pri G locally before I put them up for the winter..

 

Also find it here in quart size bottles that treats 512gal per bottle if you don't need a gallon size jug.

$40/quart

Gasoline Treatment

 

Sta-Bil, for me anyway, has been a 1 year solution. Longer than that the gas starts smelling bad. I have some 2 cycle mix from 2014 that I just smelled after reading this thread and it smells fine, but had PRI-G, I quit using Sta-Bil after discovering PRI-G and D. BTW, my portable diesel 15k genny has PRI-D and diesel from around 2015 or so, last time I topped it off, and it cranked fine two weeks ago for it's monthly exercise.

 

Yeah, that's what I found with Stabil as well....about a year, even in sealed 55gal drum. That's why I was leery of PRI claims at first, but after couple decades of using it, I'm convinced it's really good stuff.

 

Here it is..... You can't do that!"

 

@Motomom34 , thank you for digging that up. My low tech burning brick gasoline test starts on post 63. The gas, in a plastic 5 gallon can, that had been treated with 5.5 ounces of BG CF5 was six years old and ran just fine in my car.

I have at least one more can of the same vintage, so when it hits seven years old I'll test it.

 

Auto & Tires

Seems they make many types
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Does anyone sell it in less than case quantities? I don't feel like spending $450 for fuel stabilizer.