Don Becker said:
Well oaky, here's the story . . . . I carry a spare gallon can of fuel and an identical one for water . . . both are clearly marked but, otherwise identical . . . . . when I decided it was time to burn the old fuel and re-fill the can with fresh (+Sta-bil treatment) . . . . . . . weeeeeeellllllllll, I just had my head up my asx and wasn't paying enough attention.
What the heck do you use for containers? Since there are all kinds of laws, Federal, state and (probably) local saying that you can only dispense and carry gasoline in "approved" containers, that means you must be carrying your water in a red gasoline container, right?
I'm only half joshing you here. For a number of reasons, aside from the one you just found, it is never a good idea to carry gasoline in anything other than an approved container. First, some other types of containers are more prone to split spontaneously, which is not something I'd want a gallon of gasoline to do in the back of my daily driver. Second, in the event of an accident or a vehicle fire, if you have a container of gasoline back there it really
NEEDS to be in a container that responding emergency personnel can immediately recognize as gasoline.
You may have "Gas" written on it in magic marker, but a fireman peering in the window on a rainy night may not be able to see your hand-written label on the side of that old anti-freeze jug. This is not only unsafe, it's also totally unfair to the poor guys who have to deal with whatever the emergency is.
Gas "cans" are cheap. Buy one. Personally, I don't trust plastic. I found a catalog place (either Sportsmans Guide or Cheaper Than Dirt) that sells a 1-gallon (or maybe it's 2-quart, don't recall at the moment) version of a heavy metal Gerry can. It comes in an OD primer, but a can of Wal-Mart's best bright red paint and it becomes a dandy container for the emergency fuel stash. It even
looks like a gasoline container, so nobody should ever mistake it for anything else.
