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I have gas in air tight containers that have lasted for years. The key is a container that seals, no evaporation of the gas. This is why carbs get gummed up when not running an engine often, the gas volitals evaporate and gums up the carb. Any engine I have that is not used for a while (weedeater, log splitter, tiller, chain saw, etc) I run it out of gas, never had a problem. If it doesn't have a fuel shutoff, put one on or drain the tank, run it till it quits.

I use Stabil. No issues!

That. Non-ethanol gas is easily available here, thank God...

Around here non-al gas is so much more expensive than ethanol that the conversion would pay for itself in short order.

I add a marine grade Stabil additive and or SeaFoam every time I bring a jug of gas home. The trick to keeping small engines running is to keep the gas tank full and run them for 5 minutes every month. I've been doing this for years and have no problems anymore. Ethanol gas sure caused a lot of problems for us in our small engines around the farm.

Huge Seafoam fan here. Supposed to be good for 2 years.

I use it in everything. I usually use non ethanol gas as my storage fuel.

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Stabil works great for what I have around the house now.

Used to use Stabil Marine and Seafoam in the boat motor before I sold the boat.

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NATO spec Jerry cans are good for that. None of the plastic ones designed for filling tanks seal well at all.

I use non ethanol gas that is sold here in all my small engines.However, with the 20 gallons I have,I use it up every 6 months in the Toyota and replace it.I use Stabil in it also

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I have Seafoam, Stabil and Star Tron in my shop and they all seem to work fine. Star Tron treats more gallons for the $$$.
Always use non ethanol (without exception, whatever the cost) and as mentioned when getting 5-6 gal jugs the fuel gets treated as soon as gets home, and this works great for all my small engines. The boat gas gets treated on the last tankful of the fall season, and stored full.
I have a Westinghouse 7500 generator for a house back-up and put in a propane conversion kit because we have a 500 gal tank, and piped into it.

I've been using Sta-Bil in our sleds, mowers and wheelers for over a decade and have had zero issues starting them after long term storage.

I have a deer lease truck that is basically in storage because I haven't had a deer lease in several years. I start it about once a month and run it until it gets warm. I add five gallons of fresh gas with an ounce of ethanol Stabil every couple of months. Last year I didn't start it as much because the fuel pump quit, the alternator died and the carb started leaking. After I rebuilt the carb , replaced the fuel pump and and alternator (AC Delco still makes NEW alternators for '80 Chev trucks) it ran REAL bad. It ran good after I drained the carb and added ten gallons of fresh gas. According to live science gasoline goes go bad because of evaporation and ethanol makes it even worse. I'm going to fill up one of my 20 gal gas tanks with ethanol free gas and keep it full. That should cut way down on evaporation because the won't be any air in the tank. The fuel gauge on the other tank doesn't work anyway. I need to get this truck licensed and start driving it every once in a while instead of just letting it sit.

https://www.livescience.com/58117-does-gasoline-go-bad.html

As someone already said get a diesel ....I have a small generator with a yanmar...also a big multi quip I can run 2 houses on has a little kubota 4 cyl...
Problem with gas generators every time I get mine out I have to take apart the carb and clean it...I use a gas powered Honda to pump water for cattle in the summer...mainly because I had it before the diesels...and i just need to keep it running...