Link – The Little Can That Could

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Wonderful post about the history of the jerrycan.

During World War II the United States exported more tons of petroleum products than of all other war matériel combined. The mainstay of the enormous oil-and-gasoline transportation network that fed the war was the oceangoing tanker, supplemented on land by pipelines, railroad tank cars, and trucks. But for combat vehicles on the move, another link was crucial—smaller containers that could be carried and poured by hand and moved around a battle zone by trucks.

I’ve given up on anything other than the ‘NATO/Euro’ style cans for gasoline storage. They are more expensive, and sometimes hard to find, but I believe they are worth it.

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  1. I picked up some of the SG knock off’s and like them. A few of my cans are still those new POS Carb compliant plastic ones which suck. I have been doing the annual (working to bump it to bi annual) fuel rotation and those things suck. I plan to replace them before the next rotation.

    Will pay the extra few bucks for the nato ones this time. Buy once, cry once. I also plan to add about 20 gallons to the total storage in this purchase. Right now I have enough to fill both vehicles and 25-30 (I can’t recall) gallons for the genny. Figuring I ran the EU2000 for an hour 4x a day to keep the fridge/ freezer going, charge batteries and the Goal 0 power supply my rough math says that fuel would last through anything but a true worst case scenario. However I fear despite my vigilance invariably the time we need to go both of our vehicles will be closer to E than F, so I want to be able to fill up, then still have a second refill.

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