I highly recommend using a sealed polymer safety canister to store gasoline, the kind with a button trigger that is required to vent pressure during warm weather when the butane in the gasoline evaporates out easily, the same safety button that allows precise dispensing of fuel into small fuel tanks of pressure washers, tillers, snowblowers, weed whackers, chain saws, dirt bikes, scooters, motorcycles or power equipment with an engine that burns gasoline like a typical or classic lawn mower long before battery powered lithium-ion lawn mowers became widely available.
Extend Gasoline Shelf Life
Adding fuel stabilizer to a gasoline can with fresh fuel helps extend the shelf life before damage from 3 months to 2 years, or 8X longer. So adding fuel stabilizer to stored gasoline makes it last 800% longer. I highly recommend putting fresh fuel and stabilizer into your fuel can every couple of months, so there is always fresh stabilized fuel. Add the fuel that is 2 or 3 months old to your vehicle tank just before filling with fresh gasoline.
One part of old gasoline to 5 parts fresh gasoline perfectly safe even in newer model year fuel injected vehicles. I highly recommend running old gasoline, if you can see waxy threads in it, through a coffee filter in a funnel into a clean gasoline can and mix with fresh gasoline added to the clean can with more fuel stabilizer.
Dispose of Old Gasoline Safely, Ecologically Intelligent Too
Hazardous Disposal Centers at your local "Transfer Station" some mechanics or service centers will take old gasoline in small cans. If you have to dispose of very old gasoline that is beyond filtering and dilution correction with fresh gas, contact your local hazardous substances disposal center, they usually accept old solvents, spray paint cans, CFC air conditioning refill units, strange lawn and garden chemicals, you know household hazardous waste like dead fluorescent lamp tubes or CFLs that reached end of life since the glass tube of such bulbs contains the neurotoxic heavy metal mercury.
Lamp Bulb or Light Technology Blurb
In principle the excitation of the filament in the ends of a fluorescent bulb causes the conductive mercury Hg vapor to produce UV emissions that stimulate the whitish colored phosphor pigments wash coated as the opaque color liner of the otherwise optically clear gas tubes. When UV from the mercury vapor excited by electricity from the fluorescence magnetic or electronic ballast strike the phosphors on the inner edges of the glass tubes those phosphors glow red, green, blue, orange, yellow, purple, more colors with more phosphors in color corrected bulbs, typically they are trying to mimic the eyes photo response by mixing phosphors to produce bulbs of an acceptable CRI or color rendering index. I previously sold lighting professionally for more than 5 years and am an expert on light technologies. These same fluorescent tube phosphors are not featured in LED's where a blue violet LED excites a mix of red, green and blue phosphors in epoxy that have yellow appearance, so the LED emits so called "White Light", when the only light technologies that emit a true broad spectrum continuous are HID or short arc xenon or tungsten incandescent or improved halogen lamps or bulbs. While not as power efficient as LED, the other older bulbs produce a continual electromagnetic emission across a broad range of colors with a much high CRI of 90 or better, while many CFL and tubular version of common T8 or T5 fluorescent have a CRI of 70 or 80 or even as low as 60 in the cheapest examples. LED can have a high CRI if the LED chips are color matched. They make LED on old CPU processing equipment or computer memory equipment or CMOS equipment, such that the 3 or 5 or 7 color rare earth phosphors sprinkled over the wafer produce LED chips with different color characteristics, like a pinker or yellower or greener or bluer "White" but during QA:CQ these can be tested and rapidly puff sorted into tight color bins and used in higher CRI professional costly photography or art / jewelry store LED lighting solutions.
Consider Fuel Consumption Rate vs Runtime & Fuel Storage Amount
Do you have a backup generator? I highly recommend pulling it out of storage and operating it for at least 1 hour outside connected to a load like a small low wattage electric heater, with an extension cord of 12-3 or 14-2 on the low setting 500w or 750w. for at least 1 hour to help fully heat up the engine, engine oil, and it's a good self-test to make sure it's in perfect working order and keeps the carb bowl from becoming frozen with evaporation deposited goo, that alkane wax that starts forming in oxidized gasoline in unsealed containers after 3 months of storage with no fuel stabilizer added.
Shallow Metal Pan Gasoline Evaporates Outside: Do Not Breathe Vapors
Gasoline exposed to the atmosphere evaporates slowly due to the high vapor pressure of the chemicals in gasoline, hexane, heptane, butane, propylene, xylene, iso's, low boiling point combustible fuel components like ethanol in E10 common gasoline sold at millions of gas stations in the USA.
I know that fuel is sold by the liter around the world, instead of US gallon, so 2.5-gallon gasoline canister or container red in color holds about 10 liters of fuel. Think about your generators fuel consumption, if you plan to run the fridge for a few hours per day, how many days will your fuel supply last? If you going mobile on a 2-wheel vehicle and carrying extra fuel and gear, how far can you go before you need more fuel? Even if you car has 600 miles of range on a fuel tank, what use is a car if the roadways to get out of dodge are gridlocked with abandoned vehicles? Only a 2 wheel vehicle like a dirt bike or motorcycle or gasoline fueled scooter can get through such road obstacles to travel large distances when bridges, freeways, highways, roads are failing or damaged by war munitions or clogged entirely with parked automobiles grid locked in place worse than any traffic jam in history.
Use Fuel Stabilizer, Wise for Fuel Storage
Fuel Stabilizer, a red color fluid you can buy at a hardware store or gas station shop, helps to slow gasoline oxidation, acidification, and moisture damage that would otherwise skunk or cause waxy threads to form in old gasoline stored in simple unsealed gasoline cans. Using a combination of a sealed safety button plastic gas canister and fuel stabilizer will protect the gasoline for up to 2 years even as the weather changes.
Inspect Unknown "Old" Gasoline Containers
Use a flashlight to inspect unknown gasoline cans, by pointing the light into the gasoline, which has a funny opalescent look, and look for any debris, rust, particles, threads, if you see anything like that, filter the old gasoline into a much larger gasoline container and add fresh gasoline. If funk ends up in your vehicles fuel tank, it can clog the fuel filter, so carrying a spare fuel filter, plyers to change it, a great idea in an evacuation scenario.
Backup for Survival Wise
Planning ahead for natural hazards and disasters with water, food & fuel backups, backup generators, guns and ammo, first aid supplies. Be careful as some of this stuff, like the adhesive on Band-Aids can dry out over 2-5 years. Hydrogen peroxide loses its potency since the extra oxygen boils out slowly. Commercial toothpaste only lasts about 2 years, and the same for many canned foods.
Rotate Supplies to Minimize Spoilage Loses
Look for longer lasting supplies and rotate and use your supplies, so your backup stuff should be the stuff you already life, since you will be using it to rotate through your supplies, so you are effectively keeping a buffer of stuff so that if the official channels of retail groceries, gasoline, grid power, natural gas, water, if those societal domestic city services are not working or during a prolonged power outage or supply chain interruptions, you will at least have enough to be moderately comfortable as other people give up or succumb to criminal killers who kill people to steal their stuff.
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