OT-storing gas @ the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Rkh · Jan 5, 2015

Wouldnt it be nice if you could store 1000 gallon of gas at this cheap prices, makes you wonder how they keep it so you can use it at theStrategic Petroleum Reserve . They must have to add something to it.

Charlie M · Jan 5, 2015

I thought all they stored was crude oil. Preserving it as crude oil wouldn't create a problem.

Dean · Jan 5, 2015

Crude oil, not gasoline, is stored in the strategic petroleum reserve.

Dean

Geo-TH,In · Jan 5, 2015

I think it would be nice to buy 1000 gallons and get to fill up truck anytime in future at the price I paid for the 1000 gallons. Don't think that will ever happen. Like locking in prices for LP.

Craig45 · Jan 5, 2015

I think we better stop filling the oil preserve, sounds like we have lots of it in the ground already.

GeneMO · Jan 5, 2015

I gotta empty 550 gallon barrel at the farm. I am afraid evaporation would eat me alive though.

Gene

Indiana Ken · Jan 5, 2015

(quoted from post at 16:38:59 01/05/15) I gotta empty 550 gallon barrel at the farm. I am afraid evaporation would eat me alive though.

Gene

Any container to store gasoline should be be sealed, that includes containers for the lawnmower, chainsaws etc. Seal the drum and store in a cool place - the drum must be capable withstanding the gasoline vapor presssure...15 PSI. Do not fill the drum completely - leave room for expansion and vapor.

RalphWD45 · Jan 5, 2015

I finally, got ahead of my evaporation, leaking carb, ect, problems. I pi$$ed off my younger son, 24 and not only made him get out on his own , but also don't allow his former crowd (friends) to come on the place. Gas in the tractors, quit leaking out, on the ground, quit evaporating from tractors, and gas cans quit being empty, when I was sure I had remembered to fill them. Also this fall I bought a large steel cabinent, at the auction, and brought it home. It holds 3 55 gallon drums on their sides. The ends of the drums are 3.5 ft up, on the top shelf, and have shelves below that holds a case of napa30-30 oil in quarts, a 5 gallon can of Hi Tran,a 5 gal. can of 80-90 oil, 2 cases of tube grease, and jugs of new antifreeze, and any wheel bearing grease, and spray cans of Kroil, WD40, ECT. I swing the two big steel doors shut, and apply a big pad lock. Hard to belive how much stuff lasts so long, now. Yah Gene I know about evaporation!

OT-storing gas @ the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

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