Day 1 of me spending nothing and being happy.
💥 THIS IS THE WAY. 💥
I have zero active subscriptions, digital or otherwise going into June. Not eating out at all either. With three freezers full of meat, bread to last the month, and milk restocked ahead of time, the only likely out of pocket expense for me in these 30 days will be fuel. I prepaid any bills for utilities and whatnot, so my transactions for this month should literally be zero.
This will be a fascinating experiment on just what I can in fact live without regardless.
Been doing that for the last 2 years except only 2 freezers. Don’t forget to stockpile extra fuel for the generator, in my case I can always use in the lawn mower so won’t go stale.
TOPIC: Custom octane fuel blends & fuel storage for 24 months
PURPOSE: Balance 87 octane and 91 octane fuel reserves for generator and car, respectively.
RESULTS:
70%/30% mix of 91/87 octane works in Premium required vehicle without triggering the fuel injector sensors. STP octane booster used with full tank. 1/2 of the tank is 100% 91 octane and the mix is the other 1/2, then octane booster applied to whole tank. No issues.
Fuel successfully stored for 2 years and then used by adding Stabil fuel stabilizer at 2oz per 5 gal. Fuel not used was refreshed with 50:50 mix new to old and new 2oz of stabilizer (and moved to front for first usage ASAP).
NEXT TEST: 70/30 mix without octane booster to see if fuel injector sensor gets triggered.
I'm playing with this to manage my fuel reserve, but also now doing some distillation and may attempt to do small scale refining experiment to learn how the refining process works and add some focused Chemical Engineering skills.
Good info and topic.
Moonshiners back in the day used to distill ethanol and cut it into gas back during the depression to extend their supply as well.
A still is a good thing to have.
And then there is also the method of melting petroleum based plastics back into crude and refining and separating it. It’s not to complicated to figure out.
Hopefully it’s just a matter of riding it through for a short period and doesn’t require these more drastic measures to obtain fuel.
but either way Necessity is the mother of invention.
Would love to hear your results of the distilling and refining when you get to it.
Ty for encouragement. It is much appreciated. Moonshiners had mad skills back in the day because most farmers were making their own tractor fuel. Before Prohibition 90% of refined fuels made by farmers and individual family groups. After Prohibition 80% of refined fuels controlled by globalist corporations. That was the play.
Time to reverse it a tad...or at least relearn how to do it. Lots of independent, local refiners going to be needed to support local farming and make food supply chain shorter, imo.
Funny this topic just came up. I just woke up to power out, just started the generator. Yesterday did a fuel run to replace what was used by the mower so that’s good. Strange that the power is out in three spread out spots. No bad weather to blame. About 5000 total houses out. Unusual to get power outages this time of the year in my area. I just did a generator check 2 days ago to make sure everything was ok. I have two, both Honda’s. Backup is good.