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How To Store Gas And Diesel For The Long-Term

How To Store Gas And Diesel For The Long-Term

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Everyone knows that having food and water storage is crucial for your SHTF plan, but gas storage is of almost equal importance. Until SHTF happens we will have no idea how much we rely on gas.

Seriously, you may say to your self now, nah, I’ll go solar, I’ll go without, but you will honestly find it hard like the rest of us. Thats why it is so important to know how to store gas correctly.

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Seriously, you may say to your self now, Nah, I’ll go solar, I’ll go without, but you will honestly find it hard like the rest of us. That’s why it is so important to know how to store gas correctly and how long fuel last.

Gas and diesel are only good for about 1 year, 2 years at the most. I can testify to this as I stupidly put in 3-year-old gas into my new car and it ran like an old 1900 model T… Loud and ran like crap.

Get gas while it’s cheap and store it, normally gas doesn’t store very well, luckily I found a great article about how to store gas, read the full article below.

How To Store Gas And Diesel For The Long-Term

How To Store Gas And Diesel For The Long-Term - Seriously, you may say to your self now, nah, I’ll go solar, I’ll go without, but you will honestly find it hard like the rest of us. Thats why it is so important to know how to store gas correctly. Image by stockmonkeys.com/flickr

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Monday 27th of October 2014

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