Posted: 9/9/2007 8:07:20 PM EDT
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So, I'm thinking about getting a car, if I get one, its in Wy, I live in CO, fuel in WY is like $2 last time I checked, my parents and I go there alot. I was thinking about buying two 10 gal. gasoline metal cans, and storing them in the trunk of my car. How will they handle(the fuel) extreme heat/cold? Will it leak? Any thing else I need to be worried about? Recommend any cans for me? |
| People did that all the time during the early 1970s, according to a number of people I know. My mother drove around with a 20 gallon fuel bladder in her trunk in case the stations were out of gas. Hugely, massively, violently unsafe. Don't do this. Get a pickup with a bed tank or carry the fuel in MFC outside the vehicle. |
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Fuel is the cheapest thing you will put into your BOV. By placing 20 gallons in your trunk and saving 50 cents a gallon you're saving $10 dollars. I don't know what an ER trip costs lately but 10 years ago at a county hospital it was over $400 just to be examined. Economically the odds are stacked against you if you were to get rearended and burned or even just lost the BOV |
Keep your fuel cans in a pickup bed, and NOT on a bedliner or rubber mat. Never fill a gas can in the back of a bed. A bicycle chain works nicely with some large bolt eyelets from the hardware store to prevent people from grabbing them, but they can still siphon the fuel out. And, if things are that bad I should already be at the BOL. People forget that in Wyoming gas stations are much farther apart, then in more populated states. Its not good to keep fuel cans in a trunk, but its better than running out of gas. Up there, I'd be sure to treat the fuel with HEET in cool weather as well. If you do store in a trunk get military fuel cans, which greatly reduce the chance of leaking. Do not buy "Blitz" plastic gascans for trunk storage. If you keep gascans in a hot trunk, they will vent fumes, which is very dangerous. |