Timeline for What would allow gasoline to last for years?
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| Feb 21, 2021 at 18:54 | comment | added | Tetsujin | As a practical anecdote, last year due to covid, I had filled my tank in January & didn't need to fill it again until December. No issues. | |
| Feb 21, 2021 at 2:27 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | First please, read Earth Abides (google.com/…) then please Post what makes you think gasoline has such a short shelf life? I've been carrying some in the back of my car for a lot more than five years, and I've no reason to believe it's lost its potency… | |
| Feb 20, 2021 at 22:13 | comment | added | RBarryYoung | A much bigger problem for cars that have been sitting 2-3 years is that mice, squirrels, and other vermin are probably living in them, have left lots of nesting and waste under the hood and elsewhere and will eventually chew through the hoses and other rubber/plastic parts. Also, if you let rubber tires sit exposed in one position for too long, they will start too dry rot and lose their seal. I can attest to both of these problems from personal experience. | |
| Feb 20, 2021 at 19:03 | comment | added | Brian Knoblauch | Due to lack of driving over the past year, I just filled up one of my cars for the first time in nearly a full year (something like 11 1/2 months). It was still driving fine on the old gas. I've used gas before that was sitting in cans for years and not had issues. too. Gas going bad in just a couple months appears to not actually be a thing. | |
| Feb 20, 2021 at 17:10 | answer | added | donjuedo | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 23:58 | comment | added | T James | If Battle Field Earth is any indication, it should safely last several thousand years with no issues. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 19:24 | comment | added | Alexander | Related, maybe a full duplicate of Could people in a post-apocalyptic setting work around the fact that fuel expires? | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 18:56 | comment | added | Justin Thyme the Second | Ah, the myth of bad gas. Thee is no such thig as bad gas, just bad engine design. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 16:44 | comment | added | jamesqf | Gasoline DOES last for years. Once upon a time, when I was broke and gas was expensive, I drained gas out of cars that had been in a farm junkyard for years, and used it in mine. No noticable problems. And the gallon can I keep for the chainsaw lasts a couple of years. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 16:40 | answer | added | rtaft | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 14:44 | answer | added | Zeiss Ikon | timeline score: 17 | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 13:57 | comment | added | In Hoc Signo | It's called "fuel stabilizers" | |
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| Feb 19, 2021 at 6:17 | comment | added | John | @AlexP not that may have been ethanol free gasoline or stabilized gasoline, normal modern gasoline has an awful shelf life, I don't even bother filling my backup generator anymore and just rotate out hand tanks becasue the fuel becomes worthless so quickly. | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 6:11 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 10 | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 3:54 | answer | added | Ash | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 3:15 | answer | added | Mike Serfas | timeline score: 51 | |
| Feb 19, 2021 at 3:08 | comment | added | AlexP | Depends on what you call gasoline. The currently available various commercial products sold under that name are indended to be burned within a reasonably short time. But in practice, gasoline remains usable for considerably longer than three months; I have had practical experience starting an engine after four years of neglect, and it worked with the gasoline in the tank. | |
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