with Australian fuel reserves not at the APEC recommended levels and generally at 30 days rather 90 days
is it worth storing fuel?
how much fuel do you have in storage?
how do you store it?
Storing Fuel Does Anyone Do It? and How Are You Doing It?
Archi on 09/03/2020 - 13:20
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'live and let live'
sure… ok.
with that type of attitude, i can be certain what type of person you are
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says it all
Car used to run exclusively E85. Stored 40L (2x20L jerry cans) at once. Every time I went to the gas station, I would fill up the 60L tank and 2 jerry cans.
Ethanol makes the fuel last so much shorter. Be careful leaving it to long.
Yep. You can buy a 'stabiliser' to put in it, but in saying that I've tested my E85 jerry cans with a hydrometer after 4 month of storage in storage with no change to alcohol content. The fear is always that the fuel oxidises and is hygroscopic, absorbing moisture from the atmosphere. Harder to do in a sealed jerry can. Eventually used the fuel in my car and data logged the ECU - no difference to fresh fuel.
Ok. Cool.
Also, are you a cat?@eek: Cool. Its a show I remember liking a long time ago now. Might have to revist to see if its held up over the years.
Seems asking people if they are a cat is a bit personal according to 2 users.
Eventually used the fuel in my car and data logged the ECU - no difference to fresh fuel.
Username nearly checks out (g)eek
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How long does it take to charge a Tesla with your house roof solar panels? You can't escape to the wilderness, but if you could do a food & medicine run once a week at least it's something.
The big problem in these post-apocalyptic scenarios is that you need something non-perishable that you can barter. Like rice and flour (especially if you can bake a sizable quantity of bread at home).
Otherwise home grown vegetables.
Poo in your vegetable garden and hose bum off. Acts as fertilizer and negates need for TP?
M3 SR+ has 54kWh battery, so depending on the size of your PV installation it's between a few hours during peak, up to a few days to get to 100%. Avg. consumption is around 150wH/km and the sun should be a reliable source of power for the upcoming few millions of years.
Given there's currently between 2-3 million home solar installations in Australia, you should be able to travel across continent if you're allowed to charge at people houses - maybe have something to barter, or offer transportation between places in exchange for power.
So typical Tesla will store between 50 and 100 kWh's of electrical energy.
A large House solar panel setup of say 10 kW of (about 30) panels will produce around 40-50 kWh's of energy per day in summer and about 20 kWh's in Winter.
Driving a Tesla Model 3 will use about 13 kWh's per 100 kms.
So in summer you can charge your car purely off solar enough to drive 300 km's (as long as you charge during the day and drive during the night), winter is about 150kms.
Hope this answers the question.
Just don't store the diesel too close to the fertilizer.
I hear Styrofoam boxes are great at storing petrol, use those.
I have a 20l drum and a couple of 5l easier to pour bottles for ride on mower fuel that doubles as a cyclone kit for the cars (in the aftermath of Yasi, basially no fuel in NQ for a couple of weeks, hell now power for a full week for many major towns), which I guess is now also Coronavirus kit.
If you aren't using it regularly it is best to fill your car with it at some point, like every 3 months, then refill the stash with fresh stuff. I do use that Sta-Bil fuel stabiliser stuff that is meant to make it keep for a year, but buggered if I know how long is has been there usually (just replaced it a month ago now) so, yeah. Even with stabiliser don't set and forget it.
I didn't realise that insurance limits could be so stupidly low with this, given 20l jerry cans are so common I'd thought they'd be fine, better check the PDS I guess…
I full the car tank up
If storing lots of fuel remember to have means to defend and protect your fuel.
Sorry, goes back to ammo and guns. Lots.I usually advise shaking a fist to tell young punks to get off my lawn.
They'll go after your fuel … forget the lawn ;-)
not sure if its been mentioned as i didnt read all of the replies, but might be worth checking home insurance policy to see if they are good with storing quantity of fuel in garage or where ever you are thinking of storing.
You could always store a bit of muscle on your legs.
If you want to peg prices of petrol, invest in Oil commodities instead.
I.e. if you want to pre-buy $10k worth of petrol, buy $10k in Oil ETF's instead.
Yes you'll be paying brokerage, so don't actually sell it as you buy petrol, but you'll be reasonably protected, and you won't have to touch a millilitre of petrol.
If you actually expect us to run OUT of supply, that's another story, and I highly doubt it will happen.
I store a few litres for my mower and trimmer. Storing fuel at home for your car? Heck no, fuel degrades over time. Also it'a a fire hazard.
To this day, I still don't understand why people hoard two years worth of toilet paper. Even if you have to isolate yourself, you won't need that much. I see pictures of people with trolleys that have TP stacked to almost 2 metres high queueing at the cashiers. It was hard for me to get enough toilet paper for my needs in the last few days.
People need to be considerate of others before buying excessive amount of stuff for themselves.
Plot twist: The OP runs a servo.
Urrghhh… No.
Have a 5L can, have stored fuel for a couple of months now although it slowly drops each fortnight by about 150-200ml.
Keep a few gallons for my chopper
And to add to panic buying (fuel this time) why not offer $1 5L Fuel Cans as Repco is doing?
OzBargain offer here: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/523817Yes, I know I know … is just a "coincidence".
Next to my pile of sugar in the backyard
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your point is..?