How much diesel fuel to store (fuel tank)

 

I would like to ask for some reasoned opinions.

How much diesel fuel to store.

Right now I have a emergency 7 kW onan DJE generator and 10 gallons of
fuel, in 2 jerry cans. I can add 5 gallons easily right now as I have
another jerry can.

Based on 8 hour a day genset runtime, that would mean fuel for 9 days.

I also have a 25 gallon plastic Mueller tank. could store it in my
shed. With jerry cans, that would be 40 gallons of diesel fuel, or
enough fuel for 24 days, again based on 8 hours per day usage.

Should I bother with filling it?

Could rodents chew through that plastic tank? (I know they can if they
want to, but would they want to?)

Also, I have some diesel fuel biocide/storage concentrate that is
supposed to extend life of diesel fuel. How long would treated fuel
store, practically speaking?

i

 

Ignoramus25850 wrote:

Enough to keep you running until Replacement Parts for the Generator
have been consumed.

 

I have 1500 gallons of veggie stored, it's a 5 month supply. It keeps
getting rotated out with daily usage and daily collection of new
material. I use 10 gallons or so daily.


Steve Spence
Dir., Green Trust, http://www.green-trust.org
Contributing Editor, http://www.off-grid.net
http://www.rebelwolf.com/essn.html

Auto wrote:

 


That's impressive. I suppose that requirements for storage of veggie
oil are not as stringent as those for storing diesel fuel.

i

 

On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:07:46 GMT, Ignoramus25850

wrote:

And veggie oil can be refined into bio-diesel pretty easily.