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Should One Stockpile Gasoline? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Would the current events affect the price of worldwide gasoline enough to make stockpiling gas right now worthwhile, cost wise? Which places would be affected the most?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Gasoline is highly volatile.

They say:

Properly stored gasoline can last up to half a year.
Ethanol-blended gas lasts up to 3 months.
Pure gasoline keeps for at least 6 months.

Coincident?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can put fuel stabilizers in it. I'm also gonna be honest during the pandemic I didn't fill gas in my car for over a year and it still turned over

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's also reasonable to assume most gasoline is already stabilized to a degree. Reddit bros like to " 🤓 actually this apocalypse show is bad because people wouldn't be driving cars after 6 months because all the gasoline would go bad "

Meanwhile my shitty, cheap, gas power garden tiller has had the same gasoline in it for like 3 or 4 years now and still starts up and runs fine. I started a remote job during the pandemic and so I put a stabilizer in my cars fuel. All it did was make it run weird till I eventually had to fill up with fresh gas 9 months later.