Petrol Storage

[NorthernRaider]

The General rule of thumb about " How Much" came to a sort of consensus after Hurricane Rita and was confirmed by the UK hurricane of 84 and Hurricane Katrina. It was noted and documented by preppers both sides of the pond that in some cases people were bugging out from New Orleans with fuel tanks filled to the brim.

BUT because of traffic problems, breakdowns, congestion, accidents etc many people ran out of fuel after running at 5 mph for 12 hours in crawling traffic and found themselves still well inside the danger areas.

A rough formular came out of that along the lines of :

How much fuel do you need to get you to your BOL by the longest possible route, then triple it. So in my own case at the time I planned on a max route of 200 miles, x 3 gave me 600 miles which in the Transit van equated to about 80 Litres.. The fuel tank holds 65 litres so I carried two extra jerry cans of 20 litres each.

But when you get to your BOL you will still need fuel for reccing, patroling and salvaging !!

(24 October 2011, 18:03)Skvez Wrote: How much petrol do you need and what do you plan to use it for?