"Pop" wrote in message
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Hi,

What do you folk do for gasoline storage for your generators?

I am in far northern NY with harsh winters and occasional
multi-day power outages with frequent outages of several hours in
the winter. Worst one so far was during the Ice Storm of '98 - 5
days without power.

Thats not so bad; I was 10 days from the 91 ice storm and 6 days from the 98
wind storm. But we rarely have a short outage.

Here's my solution, but I don't like it:
I simply keep about 30-35 gallons of gas on hand beginning
about late November through February. They're all in proper
containers, stored outdoors, in a small open "locker" I made for
the purpose, painted red, highly visible from the road/driveway
for emergency vehicles, and clearly labelled as gasoline storage,
no smoking, all that good stuff. But that's a LOT of gas sitting
around in separate containers, some of the plastic, which I know
I should get rid of. That locker is about ten feet from the
garage and near a storage shed behind them, with a wooden gate
into the area. Theft is not a problem - very rural, motion
lites, siren, and someone is home near 24/7, etc..

That seems quite reasonable; I just have 3-2 gallon plastic cans sitting on
a shelf in my garage.
A real inflamable cabinet would be a good upgrade (for either of us). I see
them at auctions for reasonable prices every now and then but can't justify
the room they take up.

I wanted a farm tank wiht a pump, but was refused; have to be a
business.

It is easy enough to register as a business; if that would be enough. Get a
tax certificate and all that. (means you have to file quarterly, even if
you don't actually do any business...) You could be Pop's snow plowing, and
then just never get around to doing it.

Have two cars, which hold plenty of fuel, but ... no way to get
the gas out of them. Siphoning is impossible these days.

My next generator's going to be a diesel! I know how to pump
fuel oil from my furnaces! But what about right now?

TIA,

Pop