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From: Vic Smith on 22 Jul 2010 09:49
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:48:01 +0000 (UTC), Judy Zappacosta
<zappajNOSPAM(a)Use-Author-Supplied-Address.invalid> wrote:

>On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:37:35 -0700 (PDT), mkirsch1(a)rochester.rr.com wrote:
>> Of course, unless you load up ten 5-gallon jugs with gas and stack
>> them in the back of the minivan with the kids, in front of a cop,
>> Unless you ADVERTISE that you're doing something illegal, nobody is
>> going to know you're doing something illegal...
>
>But how do you get the clandestine 5 five gallon gas cans into the trunk at
>the gas station without anyone seeing you?

Don't know about storage. Others are citing rules.
I keep plastic 5 gallon, 2 gallon and 1 gallon containers in my
garage, tucked away under the workbench. One of each.
The 2 gallon is for filling the lawn mower.
Easy to handle and not spill gas.
The 1 gallon has the 2-cycle mix for the weed whacker.
The 5 gallon only comes out to replenish the others.
As to your question, the simple answer is one at a time.
No reason you have to transport all the gas at once.
Though I don't see moving 4 5-gallons jugs in the trunk as an issue if
they are reasonably secured and you don't travel far.
But I'm less than half a mile from a gas station.
If I had to travel more than a couple miles I'd probably carry one at
a time.
When I do the yearly half-mile trip with my 3 jugs it's a dedicated
trip and I'm aware of what's in the trunk the entire time.

--Vic

From: Jim Elbrecht on 22 Jul 2010 10:50
Vic Smith <thismailautodeleted(a)comcast.net> wrote:
-snip-
>
>Don't know about storage. Others are citing rules.
>I keep plastic 5 gallon, 2 gallon and 1 gallon containers in my
>garage, tucked away under the workbench.

Just curious-- Do you ever weld, solder, grind, hammer metallic
things, or use power tools at that workbench?

I keep a 10-20 gallons gas in my garage, too-- but it is in a no-work
zone between two garage doors. Even at that I think I would be smart
to move it to its own little shed.

Jim
From: HeyBub on 22 Jul 2010 11:24
Vic Smith wrote:
>
> Don't know about storage. Others are citing rules.
> I keep plastic 5 gallon, 2 gallon and 1 gallon containers in my
> garage, tucked away under the workbench. One of each.
> The 2 gallon is for filling the lawn mower.
> Easy to handle and not spill gas.
> The 1 gallon has the 2-cycle mix for the weed whacker.
> The 5 gallon only comes out to replenish the others.
> As to your question, the simple answer is one at a time.
> No reason you have to transport all the gas at once.
> Though I don't see moving 4 5-gallons jugs in the trunk as an issue if
> they are reasonably secured and you don't travel far.
> But I'm less than half a mile from a gas station.
> If I had to travel more than a couple miles I'd probably carry one at
> a time.
> When I do the yearly half-mile trip with my 3 jugs it's a dedicated
> trip and I'm aware of what's in the trunk the entire time.
>

We kept 5 gallons of gas on hand to replenish the 6-gallon tank on the
generator. Seemed sufficient.

Then Hurricane Yikes came along and knocked 4 million people in our city
into the no-power zone, including every gas station for fifty miles! For TEN
FREAKIN' DAYS!

I now have a LOT of six-gallon gas cans.

The next time a hurricane heads this way, I'm gonna fill every blessed one
of them! I'll stack 'em in the garage along with lawn chairs, pot plants,
garbage cans, the dog, and anything else that might blow away in 80 mph
winds. If the door-to-door gas-can inspector comes by, I'll lie or plead
exigent circumstances.


From: Vic Smith on 22 Jul 2010 12:02
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:50:22 -0400, Jim Elbrecht <elbrecht(a)email.com>
wrote:

>Vic Smith <thismailautodeleted(a)comcast.net> wrote:
>-snip-
>>
>>Don't know about storage. Others are citing rules.
>>I keep plastic 5 gallon, 2 gallon and 1 gallon containers in my
>>garage, tucked away under the workbench.
>
>Just curious-- Do you ever weld, solder, grind, hammer metallic
>things, or use power tools at that workbench?
>
Good point. Only thing you mentioned is I do have my bench grinder at
the end of that bench.
That bench is really 8' x 1 "x 6" boards I tied into the studs with 3
1" x 4" supports cut with 45 degree miters from the studs to the outer
edges providing support. Extra lumber I had around.
Real strong and open underneath except for the 3 angled supports.
Good place to roll my floor jack out of the way, store jack stands and
those jugs.
Sparks shouldn't get near the gas jugs, but now that you've mentioned
it, I could get them away from there, and will.
Thanks.
But I'm not moving my kerosene jugs!

>I keep a 10-20 gallons gas in my garage, too-- but it is in a no-work
>zone between two garage doors. Even at that I think I would be smart
>to move it to its own little shed.
>

I feel pretty much the same, but never smelled fumes, and the jugs
have never popped a vent open.
Now you've got me thinking that getting a little shed would be a good
idea.

--Vic
From: Vic Smith on 22 Jul 2010 12:12
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:24:48 -0500, "HeyBub" <heybub(a)NOSPAMgmail.com>
wrote:

>Vic Smith wrote:
>>
>> Don't know about storage. Others are citing rules.
>> I keep plastic 5 gallon, 2 gallon and 1 gallon containers in my
>> garage, tucked away under the workbench. One of each.
>> The 2 gallon is for filling the lawn mower.
>> Easy to handle and not spill gas.
>> The 1 gallon has the 2-cycle mix for the weed whacker.
>> The 5 gallon only comes out to replenish the others.
>> As to your question, the simple answer is one at a time.
>> No reason you have to transport all the gas at once.
>> Though I don't see moving 4 5-gallons jugs in the trunk as an issue if
>> they are reasonably secured and you don't travel far.
>> But I'm less than half a mile from a gas station.
>> If I had to travel more than a couple miles I'd probably carry one at
>> a time.
>> When I do the yearly half-mile trip with my 3 jugs it's a dedicated
>> trip and I'm aware of what's in the trunk the entire time.
>>
>
>We kept 5 gallons of gas on hand to replenish the 6-gallon tank on the
>generator. Seemed sufficient.
>
>Then Hurricane Yikes came along and knocked 4 million people in our city
>into the no-power zone, including every gas station for fifty miles! For TEN
>FREAKIN' DAYS!
>
>I now have a LOT of six-gallon gas cans.
>
>The next time a hurricane heads this way, I'm gonna fill every blessed one
>of them! I'll stack 'em in the garage along with lawn chairs, pot plants,
>garbage cans, the dog, and anything else that might blow away in 80 mph
>winds. If the door-to-door gas-can inspector comes by, I'll lie or plead
>exigent circumstances.
>

Hehe. Those with generators and hurricanes have to look at it
differently.
Once electricity goes out widespread, everything is shot to hell.
Had a 2 day outage here once.
Seemed like the end of the world.
Personally, I'd probably prefer just getting out of town to someplace
civilized when such an outage happened, but you do what you gotta do.

--Vic
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