Well, one thing you can say for the scummacrats is that they are consistent. Barely six months into the commie moron Biden administration and the price of fuel is up more than a buck a gallon. Tens of thousands of hard working American's are out of work and our realization of energy independence is quickly evaporating. Now with a truckers' strike we might be seeing $6 per gallon gasoline and diesel before too much longer and all this weekend there were huge lines everywhere they sell gas at.
With all the uncertainty in the world, and the certainty that the scummacrats are trying to ruin everything in America, including our fuel supply, you might want to buy a few extra gas cans and fill them all up while you can afford to do so.
Another good place to start, is keep all your vehicles filled, as well as motorcycles, ATVs and your lawn mower. However, shelf life of fuel is nothing like it used to be decades ago when I was a young boy so you will need to take some extra steps to store it.
Once upon a time, back when our fuels had lead in them, they pretty much would keep forever. I remember as a young boy of 11 or 12, we had an old metal 5-gallon gas can, that had the date in black marker written on it, August 1961. I remember asking my dad what that was about, and he told me that my grandfather Angelo had bought that gas can new and that he and my father had filled it and it had sat there all these years in the back of the shed.
I am pretty sure it was on a Sunday as our Ford tractor, an 8N ran out of gas in our orchard. Back then, in one-horse town USA there wasn't any convenience stores where you could buy gas all day and night by credit card, so my dad remembered that old gas can in the back of the shed. We went and got it, and poured it all in my grandad's tractor.
Took a little bit to get it our tractor to start back up, but once it was running it ran all day long on that old gas that was a couple of years older than I was at the time. Think you could accomplish that with the c**p unleaded gas they force us all to buy these days? Not a fat chance in h**l, LOL! More worthless scummacrat policies and laws back down thru time have given us this problem too.
Fuel today will barely keep six months without separating and turning into non-fuel grade lacquer but there are a few things you can do that actually help. The fuel stabilizer called Sta Bil works fairly well if you treat your stored gas with it. This will take your fuel storage from about 4-6 months to around a year, possibly a little longer in the right high grade polyethylene storage containers. The manufacture claims it will keep gas fresh for an entire two years, but I have not found this to be the case. Another fuel stabilizer that lots of people swear by is called Royal Purple. I have never tried this one, but it gets good reviews online. This will probably add about .75 cents per gallon to your fuel cost. Both of these fuel stabilizers will work on ethanol based fuel which is all the rage today.
Back in the good ole days, corn was used to make outstanding liquor and people ate it, now we make fuel out of it, go figure, LOL!
Sta Bil also makes a fuel stabilizer for diesel fuels as most diesel fuels need lubrication added to lube the injector pump in diesel engines and prevent it from wearing out. Sta-Bil Diesel Fuel Stabilizer adds the lubrication you need to keep your injector pump in good condition. I probably need to use this one more than I have for my tractor and my truck and this will add around .50 cents per gallon to your diesel cost.
On average, if you can keep your diesel fuel at 85 degrees or less it will keep about nine months to a year. Using an additive will punch you out about another year. Oxygen is the enemy of your fuel, so when filling up your vehicles, lawn mowers and fuel cans, get them as full as you possibly can. Totally full fuel containers with no air leaks will keep longer than those that are partially full.
(The author, Mark Bunch recommends all readers store as much fuel as they can possibly save while being safe doing so and in proper containers made for fuel storage.)