I notice a few people carry some extra fuel with them in case of emergencies. Has anyone tried the engineered fuel available from Home Depot in their cars? When you click the link disregard the $71.00 four pack price. It is available by the single gallon. I use it in all of my lawn equipment that isn't 2-cycle and the stuff works very well. Equipment starts easier than with pump gas. I also use the TruFuel 2-cycle stuff and that also works extremely well in my 2-cycle equipment. Especially since it can sit for weeks between uses.
As you know @Robert M, I'm a Midwestern hick-town hard-head.
The idea of paying nearly $20/gal for gas has always stuck in my craw, and I refused to do it-- even when the best man in my wedding (who now owns outdoor power equipment centers in 4 towns) recommended it for my 2-stroke Stihl trimmers, tillers, edgers, blowers, etc.
Instead, I'd buy a freaking carburetor for at least 50% of my eleventy-billion little engines every single year. Finally, a couple of years ago, I relented and bought a couple of gallons of 2-stroke "snooty-gas". I've not replaced a carb since. I steel myself and buy it whenever I'm feeling rich and famous now.
I don't do it for the 4-strokes though. For the mower, snow-blower, pressure washer, etc. I get gas from the one local ethanol-free station-- I buy 93 octane and add Sta-Bil, whether it's winter or not. And do you know what? I don't have any carb problems with those either.
If I were carrying an extra gallon for emergencies (and I don't, because I have a working trip odometer), it'd be a gallon of the same elixir, because I'm a tightwad and the $10+/gallon would really stick in my craw. What would invariably happen would that gallon of gas would ride up there for 5 years... and by the time I really needed it, it'd smell like turpentine and have the consistency and color of rancid honey.
What you're proposing has merit, should one feel the need to carry emergency gasoline.
