dwa12479
.338 Win Mag
Are you talking E85 or regular unleaded thats 10%? 10% will last quite a bit longer than a few days.
I keep 110 gallons in storage stabilized with a product from Castle called "Highway 95". Make fuel last for YEARS.
Cash on hand. What is needed?
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I keep 110 gallons in storage stabilized with a product from Castle called "Highway 95". Make fuel last for YEARS.
Doc8404
.450/400 Nitro Ex
I said decent woman......I can take it from there.
damn right. Someone has to make the sandwiches.
Saltwater60
.950 JDJ
Technically evaporation cases water to form as cooling and alcohol evaporates at low temps. Gas doesn’t really absorb it. Sorry chemistry is fun.
spat
.700 Nitro Express
The alcohol is hygroscopic, it will absorb water directly from the atmosphere regardless of the temperature. The gas doesn't absorb the water, but the alcohol does, and it's mixed with the gas.
JRtraderny
6.5 Creedmoor
Not really my friends house burnt , cooked the turkey that was in the freezer and burned up all of his cash.
Vapor
.308 Win
I've gone out in the woods on a 9 degree day, started two fires, and was fine for the day. That was without building a shelter. All I had was an axe and a folding saw.
People are soft now. If we don't have a generator and wifi, the world is ending.
Now these poor folks in TX didn't know what hit them, but people up here have no excuse. You should always have a backup heating source, even if its literally candles.
I forgot to mention kerosene heaters before. Yet another back up emergency option. We've heated the workshop with one for years.
People are soft now. If we don't have a generator and wifi, the world is ending.
Now these poor folks in TX didn't know what hit them, but people up here have no excuse. You should always have a backup heating source, even if its literally candles.
I forgot to mention kerosene heaters before. Yet another back up emergency option. We've heated the workshop with one for years.
dwa12479
.338 Win Mag
^^^ This is correct. I test fuel all the time for ethanol content using a graduated cylinder and water in measured quantities.. The ethanol pulls the water from the fuel and makes a very distinct line in the cylinder. A little simple math and you can calculate the ethanol content easily.
repete
.338 Win Mag
I have a can of gas out in the shed right now that has been used in the snow blower this winter and LAST winter with NO added 'stabilizers' I believe it is E-free gas as that's what I normally get for the small engines.Are you talking E85 or regular unleaded thats 10%? 10% will last quite a bit longer than a few days.
I keep 110 gallons in storage stabilized with a product from Castle called "Highway 95". Make fuel last for YEARS.
spat
.700 Nitro Express
It's also why we *add* alcohol to gas to get rid of water in it.
"dry gas" is comes in 2 flavors, methanol or isopropanol. Ethanol does the same thing (all are alcohols).
When you add it to a tank of gas contaminated with water, it will absorb the water.
That's a great thing if the water is in the tank already and you're trying to get rid of it. It's terrible if the air is humid and this is effectively putting water into the tank.
Funny, kind of. I read a story of a family in Texas during this storm that did not know how to light their gas stove without the igniter. They never thought to use a match or a lighter.
spat
.700 Nitro Express
It's shocking how helpless most modern Americans have become.
dwa12479
.338 Win Mag
1991 we had a massive ice storm in the Rochester area, power was out for weeks with single digit and teen temps out. I can remember my parents using plastic to block off the upstairs and downstairs, and running the gas burners periodically on the stove for heat.
If im not mistaken though, the vast majority of Texas homes aren't on natural gas. I believe they're almost all electric.
Just recently in the past couple days I also thought there were major outages on FED banking transfers and visa/mastercard outages.
I'm not so sure being super dependent on these electronic systems to work perfectly for your daily financial survival with no backup or contingency plan is very wise. It's a very real vulnerability. The system can do down either via human error, infrastructure failure, government involvement, malicious attack etc.
Fed glitch shuts down wire transfers, direct deposits, other services
A Fed statement attributed the outage to “operational error.”…
arstechnica.com
Credit card processing problems reported across NC
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (FOX 46 CHARLOTTE)- Problems with credit card outages are affecting areas up and down the East Coast. A Visa outage heat map from downdector.com shows hot spots from Boston to Atlan…
myfox8.com
I'm not so sure being super dependent on these electronic systems to work perfectly for your daily financial survival with no backup or contingency plan is very wise. It's a very real vulnerability. The system can do down either via human error, infrastructure failure, government involvement, malicious attack etc.
and waking up watching morning news, apparently it looks like we are well on our way to another 2 TRILLION dollars being printed out of thin air. The economy will continue to be held up with artificial stimulus and liquidity but sooner or later it's going to come down, and hard. I'm becoming really worried where this is going to end up.
All these trillions out of no way have been supercharging an economy that should be in a recession, sooner or later it won't be able to be propped up anymore and it will "correct" and it will be bad.
We're at a hair under 28 trillion and counting. This New stimulus will put us at 30 trillion.
At least 160 trillion in unfunded liabilities.
It's so astronomical the average person can't comprehend how much that is.
All these trillions out of no way have been supercharging an economy that should be in a recession, sooner or later it won't be able to be propped up anymore and it will "correct" and it will be bad.
We're at a hair under 28 trillion and counting. This New stimulus will put us at 30 trillion.
At least 160 trillion in unfunded liabilities.
It's so astronomical the average person can't comprehend how much that is.
FS1040
.45 acp
I convert loose cash into guns and ammo so inflation won’t get me.
It's strange because of covid my use of cash has almost completely stopped. Everything, even small purchases are on a credit card. I suspect most people have similar experiences. I wonder if people will go back to cash when (if?) Covid is finally vanquished.Just recently in the past couple days I also thought there were major outages on FED banking transfers and visa/mastercard outages.
Fed glitch shuts down wire transfers, direct deposits, other services
A Fed statement attributed the outage to “operational error.”…arstechnica.com
Credit card processing problems reported across NC
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (FOX 46 CHARLOTTE)- Problems with credit card outages are affecting areas up and down the East Coast. A Visa outage heat map from downdector.com shows hot spots from Boston to Atlan…myfox8.com
I'm not so sure being super dependent on these electronic systems to work perfectly for your daily financial survival with no backup or contingency plan is very wise. It's a very real vulnerability. The system can do down either via human error, infrastructure failure, government involvement, malicious attack etc.
IMO not likely I think people are getting habits of increasingly using electronic forms of payment. I don't see that changing.
There are more stories and opinions coming out from hedge fund uber wealthy trying to throw the warning out
Paul Singer Warns of Trouble, and Is Eager to Say ‘Told You So’
(Bloomberg) -- To crypto true-believers, meme traders, and Elon Musk fans, hedge fund titan Paul Singer can’t wait to say, “I told you so.”Offering a curmudgeonly riposte to today’s raucous financial markets, the 76-year-old billionaire said in a letter to clients of his $42 billion Elliott...
finance.yahoo.com