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  • astutemural@midwest.socialEnglish
    16·
    3 days ago

    Wouldn’t even be a year. Gasoline has a shelf life of six months. Three months if it’s an ethanol blend.

    After that, you’re down to homemade diesel, electric vehicles, and bicycles.

    • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      That’s not correct. I have ethanol-free petrol for my chainsaw that has a shelf life of 5 years guaranteed (probably lasts longer, since that’s from the time of purchase)

      • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        Not everyone knows that ethanol is simply worse for fuel efficiency and only exists to be a corn subsidy for farmers. I know E85 tuning exists which is cool but it’s still mostly trash.

        • astutemural@midwest.socialEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Yah. The fact that we’re turning edible food into worse gas, and thereby driving up food prices worldwide for no reason, is nothing short of inhumane. It’s not even a reduction in greenhouse gas; it requires so much processing that it’s about the same as just pumping crude out of the ground.

          • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            It would have made more sense to just pay farmers more with subsidies, instead oil lobbyist tricked ag lobbyist into accepting this deal (or more likely bribed them).

      • astutemural@midwest.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Hmmm, interesting. Looks like there’s some fuel stabilizers that can preserve it for a few years (most of what I can find are for 1-3 years). I’m guessing the 5-year blend has a shorter shelf life once opened? The really interesting part seems to be that some of these stabilizers can be added to old gasoline to make it usable again. So as long as an organization had an utterly gigantic supply of stabilizer, they could potentially keep using gas for quite a while.

        These stabilizers are definitely not in regular gasoline, though, so everyone except the extremely paranoid would be SOL.

        • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Stabilizers are marketing BS, they can’t rejuvenate old fuel and they generally work by introducing an additional component that reduces the ability of the fuel (mostly the methanol content) to absorb water … however they rarely have a positive effect over all because they cause other problems.

          Long shelf-life fuel is made in the refining stage. European standard E10 petrol can last a year or more if it’s stored correctly … I know this because I sometimes do store it for that long by accident.