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Old 10-23-2019, 01:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Marathon Man View Post
I would not recommend emtying your car of gasoline during a widespread power outage after a hurricane.
That is obvious. My tank holds 28 gallons. Almost assuredly yours holds 15 to 16 gallons. But let's say you don't own a car at all, you own one gas cart and one five gallon gas can which you filled. Do you think your neighbors would let you syphon some gas from their cart if you hosted them, kept their food cold, charged their phone?

Mine sure would.

But let's go completely worst case, you have no friends, no neighbors who want to help. Nine gallons equals sixty hours of power, if you leave a gallon in the cart. Or, in preparation you realize, after some self assessment, your plight as a loner without a friend within sight, buy two more gas cans. Now you are set at 120 hours, 40 minutes of power.