Has anyone thought of stockpiling fuel?
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Plenty of home accidents with petrol.
Tell me the last time in the UK a fuel tanker crashed and caused a huge fireball & lots of deaths? - I'm struggling to think of a single incident in memory.
They are extremely safe given what they carry.
As for the OP, nope, never given stockpiling a thought.
And as it degrades it would be increasingly less efficent and totally useless within 12-24 months depending on octane and additives.
I'm just comparing two storage methods, the Fire Brigade don't have fits over car use, acceptable risk or not the risk is measurably greater.
Apparently two cars out every thousand registered in the UK catch fire each year, I only remember a few home incidents and that was just people being reckless.
I compared a jerry can with a car, not a fuel tanker. That's like saying how many Nuclear waste trains crashed this week.
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Catch fire for what reason? Reference needed, I bet it's mostly electrical fires.
Apparently so, my original source didn't specify
It's in here though
http://webarchive.nationalarchives....sticsUnitedKingdom2003PDF1724Kb_id1124894.pdf
I'd assume that many crashed vehicles on fire do so because they were carrying petrol? About 2/3 of the accidental ones are electrical.
Home fires involving petrol appear lower.
I don't want to make a big deal over what statistics may prove either way, I'm just responding to the idea that storing fuel at home is some heinous crime that will have the Fire Service in a panic. Fuel in a can in a shed is pretty safe IMO (I actualy store mine in a 5mm metal gas storage box)
If you're only using 1300l a year then the savings from more 'conventional' methods of stockpiling fuel aren't going to be massive anyway. e.g. say you bought the fuel at an average of 5p less than you would have done had you waited until you needed it, this would equate to a saving of £65/year. By the time you factor in inflation (i.e. the opportunity cost of not spending the money on something else or investing), storage etc I'd suggest the saving wouldn't be worth all the hassle involved with filling up jerrycans and the like.
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And also the fact that you need to buy a truck as well. The advert is just for the trailer.
Apparently the limit to storage at home is 60 gallons? Which seems excessive to me which is why I follow the advice from an insurance company, to store less than 30 litres. I'm also happy that my metal storage locker is overkill and isn't required by law anyway.
It's people decanting fuel improperly that creates a danger, and as I'm storing this well away from the house and using it well away from the house, I'm not sure why you think the house is at risk? It's even downhill so any leakage is going the wrong way.
I assume you have a natural gas alarm in your kitchen? Because technically you could leave a cooker tap on and fill your house with a dangerously flammable vapour.
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Petrol goes off within 3 months, due to the ethanol thats added to it
Technically I couldn't.
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You would need a failed gas pipe or faulty protection system on the cooker for that to happen.
The gas main leading to the cooker has a flap which closes should the line fall off, and the cooker has a non ignited flame protection feature.
The gas main leading to the cooker has a flap which closes should the line fall off, and the cooker has a non ignited flame protection feature.
I'm sure that's a good idea, I've just never seen a house with such a gas cooker. So that's possibly every domestic cooker older than maybe 7 years is inherently dangerous?