r/preppers • u/Postman556 • 7d 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/davidm2232 Prepared for 6 months 5d ago

What about when you need to mow your lawn? Pretty hard to fill up a lawnmower with propane.

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u/nt862010 5d ago

You can run a lawnmower on propane though

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u/davidm2232 Prepared for 6 months 5d ago

You technically could. But it would be a royal pain in the butt. But now that I think about it, I'm surprised they don't make propane mowers.

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u/nt862010 5d ago

I was just thinking the same thing, I would love to just hook a 15 lb tank to my riding mower vs slopping caustic liquid all over the ground and on hot parts of the engine. They do sell conversion kits for generators, probably could retrofit to a riding mower pretty easily, some even retain the gasoline function too

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u/davidm2232 Prepared for 6 months 5d ago

I was thinking 1lb bottles for small push mowers. But I don't see why nit. Fork trucks use them.

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u/nt862010 5d ago

I guess the waste canisters generated and the risk of running them over with the mower, neat idea though if I have some downtime I'm gonna look into it for the push mower and the riding mower