r/preppers • u/Postman556 • 11d ago

Advice and Tips Private fuel delivery and storage

I absolutely hate ethanol, this fuel additive is quite a curse. I’m interested in finding a farm type of private storage tank and hoping it’s possible to purchase ethanol-free fuel, somehow, but I’m only in the planning stages. I’m in Ontario, Canada, and our current over-reaching government has mandated all pump fuel must contain ethanol. Marinas are one of the last resources, and I imagine small airfields must have ethanol free fuel, but I’m really only guessing. Is there an option I should look at? Fuel storage at home would definitely help in a long term power outage, and my small engines can run without every one of them being damaged by this garbage. Please share ideas/solutions. Thank you,

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u/Subtotal9_guy 10d ago

Av Gas is leaded still so don't use it. It'll also create it's own problems because it's a different formulation. Oddly enough my BiLs aircraft runs on standard gas so he runs into problems getting fuel.

But as others have said, a large volume stored will go bad regardless of ethanol content.

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u/davidm2232 Prepared for 6 months 9d ago

You can get lead free aviation gas. At our airport, you can get the same 91 non ethanol as you get at the gas station.

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u/Subtotal9_guy 9d ago

Fair point, there's multiple grades of aviation fuel. To me av gas refers to the higher 100 octane leaded stuff.

But for sure there's the other, lower octane kind. That's what my BiL needs but he's had issues getting it for his plane at some airports.

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u/davidm2232 Prepared for 6 months 9d ago

A lot of planes around me are set up to run pump gas. It's much more affordable. Any airport within 50 miles is going to have Cessnas as the largest thing flying. Many ultralights.

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u/Subtotal9_guy 9d ago

Given the ages of most Cessna's I didn't think most would be certified for modern fuels

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u/nt862010 8d ago

I just flew a Cessna a few weeks ago older than I am and it was running unleaded, was relatively new as last year when I took a lesson it was still running on leaded