Gasoline is highly volatile.
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?
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2025
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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
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.