I was wondering. If things were really to collapse badly, in which unusual locations would you scavenge gasoline. I am sure there must be many aside from gas stations and abandoned cars. I am thinking like on a long distance journey by car over highways and rural roads thru various towns and outskirts of cities (assuming that is possible and that i needed to) months after collapse occurs, how would i go about systematically looking for gas in unusual places? not the places other people might look. an abandoned garage might have a gas can but i'm counting that as a usual place.
i guess any business that has a fleet of trucks would have gas cans and more but whats a list of em, and where do they keep it , and what is the distribution of the store along a highway in a town. I realize this is a poor question so ill answer it for just one item and give info instead of just asking -- tow agencies-- those i have encountered are usually out in the boonies of cities
even past suburbs. they have a lot of peoples cars there. any cars already there (100) shtf, are staying there, with possible gas in them, more likely some of the gas will be drained and centrally stored. some have garages and thats gonna be where. but tow company people are a uh irascible hard to get along with type, and tow trucks might still be in operation due to government or community demand, so people will be nearby with guns, bad idea i guess. thats one type of business , where it is in my experience, and 2 ideas of where on premises located. a tow worker would know more. maybe other people have better ideas than i do about this.
a second thought was, is there a way of quickly telling if an abandoned car has some gas in the tank - ie wrecked cars may well have gas more than the average abandoned car. a neatly safely pulled over car, no. parked cars in a lot, perhaps, depends on the type of parking lot for a better probability id have to think about the business tyype. can you walk up on a car, crack the cap off, and SMELL, by smell tell if there is lots of gas or just vapor? b/c that would be really fast way to locate gas if there are lots of cars.
i guess any business that has a fleet of trucks would have gas cans and more but whats a list of em, and where do they keep it , and what is the distribution of the store along a highway in a town. I realize this is a poor question so ill answer it for just one item and give info instead of just asking -- tow agencies-- those i have encountered are usually out in the boonies of cities
even past suburbs. they have a lot of peoples cars there. any cars already there (100) shtf, are staying there, with possible gas in them, more likely some of the gas will be drained and centrally stored. some have garages and thats gonna be where. but tow company people are a uh irascible hard to get along with type, and tow trucks might still be in operation due to government or community demand, so people will be nearby with guns, bad idea i guess. thats one type of business , where it is in my experience, and 2 ideas of where on premises located. a tow worker would know more. maybe other people have better ideas than i do about this.
a second thought was, is there a way of quickly telling if an abandoned car has some gas in the tank - ie wrecked cars may well have gas more than the average abandoned car. a neatly safely pulled over car, no. parked cars in a lot, perhaps, depends on the type of parking lot for a better probability id have to think about the business tyype. can you walk up on a car, crack the cap off, and SMELL, by smell tell if there is lots of gas or just vapor? b/c that would be really fast way to locate gas if there are lots of cars.
