One fiction book I read years ago. The local guy had a tractor PTO mounted
generator, which was able to power the local gas station. I wonder if
anyone's done this for real?

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"aemeijers" wrote in message
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I know they make radio and TV stations have fuel tanks for their
gennies, so they can stay on the air. I'd be surprised if there were any
formal arrangements with local gas stations to tap their stocks. That is
more likely a local good-old-boy arrangement between the whoever runs
the local emergency services and the station owners. Note that most
scenarios that take out power also throw a lot of water around- do you
really want to trust peoples lives to fuel that may have picked up a lot
of water in it? Unless your draft pump has a water separator on it,
pulling fuel back out the fill hole is risky. Safer to power up the
station with a generator, and use the pump and filter system that is there.

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