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Articles about Fuel
18 articles across 4 sections
Section
Self-Reliance
Transportation Preparedness and Self-Reliance
Domain hub for the ninth self-reliance domain. Your household's ability to move people and supplies when the normal transportation network fails. Two tracks: build capability and when transportation fails.
Evacuation Driving
Evacuation timing, route planning, vehicle preparation, fuel strategy, and the driving decisions that determine whether your household reaches safety.
Fuel Preparedness Without Hoarding
The quarter-tank rule, responsible home gasoline and diesel storage with stabilizer, rotation schedules, the line between preparedness and hoarding, fuel conservation during disruptions, and generator fuel math.
Generator Guide, Portable and Standby
How to choose, size, fuel, and safely operate a portable or standby generator. Wattage math, fuel consumption, carbon monoxide safety, transfer switches, and the generator-as-bridge concept.
Biogas Digesters
Anaerobic digestion at property scale, and why hydrogen sulfide disables the sense of smell at the concentration where it becomes immediately dangerous. The feedstock threshold, gas conditioning as permanent infrastructure, digestate, and the confined space pattern that kills rescuers.
Nutrition for Preparedness, Fitness for Preparedness
Food as fuel, repair, and stability. Everyday eating that supports physical capacity, emergency food planning that maintains it, and reading nutrition labels so your pantry can actually do its job.
Power Outage Action Plan: Day Two and Beyond
What changes when a power outage passes 24 hours. The freezer decision at the FSIS limits, refueling while stations still have power, generator fuel budgeting and the charging-window model, light discipline, hygiene and sleep, the neighbors, and the thresholds that mean it is time to leave.
Propane Basics
Hub for propane as household backup energy: why stored propane stays usable, how it behaves in the tank, the 80% fill rule, DOT cylinders vs. ASME tanks, BTU runtime math, and core safety. Links six in-depth guides on tank sizes, runtime, NFPA 58 storage and safety, refill vs. exchange vs. delivery, regulators, and appliances.
Small-Scale Steam
Biomass-fired steam power and the stored energy that needs no ignition source to release. Low water condition as the dominant failure mode, the ASME and jurisdictional framework that makes a homemade boiler a nonstandard vessel, and the attention the system demands.
Transportation and Vehicle Ownership
Maintain reliable everyday transportation by matching vehicles to household needs, keeping them legally documented and mechanically serviceable, monitoring recalls, controlling costs, and protecting passengers.
Water for Food Storage: The Hidden Water Cost of Dry Food
Everyone stores rice and beans. Almost no one calculates the water needed to cook them. Water requirements by food type, the cooking fuel connection, infant formula, and planning water and food as one system.
What a Vehicle Really Costs: The Complete Guide to Total Cost of Ownership
The definitive guide to what a vehicle really costs. Purchase price, financing, insurance, fuel, maintenance, repairs, depreciation, registration, and the total cost of ownership calculation that tell
When the Power Stays Off: A Household Timeline for Extended Outages
What changes in your household after 72 hours without power, and what to do about it. A day-by-day timeline covering food safety, air quality, water, hygiene, fuel, and morale across a two-week outage.
Wood Gasification
What a gasifier does and why the risk is structural: producer gas runs around 170 times the concentration at which carbon monoxide is immediately dangerous, with no odour to warn of a leak. Tar as the dominant failure mode, engine derating, and what qualified execution looks like.
Section
Preparedness
Something in the News Has Me Worried. Should I Do Anything?
A decision method for evaluating worrying news stories before acting on them. Three questions separate official warnings from unverified predictions, translate headlines into specific household impacts (payments, utilities, medication, fuel, work, school), and sort responses into no-regret actions that stay useful whether or not the feared event happens. Covers panic buying, information verification, cash planning, water and power readiness, and the line between prudent preparation and anxiety-driven spending.
Standardize Your Supplies and Equipment
Fewer battery sizes, charging cables, fuel types, and replacement parts reduce expense and confusion. Compatible equipment is easier to maintain and use.