Re: Home DIY gasoline station

On 6/16/2025 8:33 AM, W. Green wrote:

If I order the following parts, do you think I'll have any major issues?
 
 5-gallon HDPE scepter gas can https://amazon.com/dp/B0BRT72MKT/>
 3/4-inch NPT Automatic Fuel Nozzle <https://amazon.com/dp/B0DZCM1HYH/>
 3/4-inch 360-degree fuel hose swivel <https://amazon.com/dp/B0F26DTBVC/>
 1-inch gas flow meter w 3/4" adapter <https://amazon.com/dp/B0F334N1JR/>
 12VDC 2GPM gasoline pump w clamps <https://amazon.com/dp/B0DFCRH64R/>
 10-feet 3/4-inch black gasoline hose <https://amazon.com/dp/B0DCG951RV/>

Ignoring the cost of the gasoline cans & any potential savings in bulk
purchases of gas (not in price but in transportation costs you'd otherwise
incur & in convenience) here's what a home diy gas station will cost you.

$30 auto-shutoff fuel nozzle https://amazon.com/dp/B0DZCM1HYH/
$18 3/4" two 360 degree hose swivels https://amazon.com/dp/B0F26DTBVC/
$30 flow meter (with 3/4" adapter) https://amazon.com/dp/B0F334N1JR/
$40 12V 75W 2GPM fuel transfer pump https://amazon.com/dp/B0DFCRH64R/
$57 10' 3/4" conductive gas hose https://amazon.com/dp/B0DCG951RV/

I noticed that particular fuel hose comes with the swivel so the cost is
$30 + $30 + $40 + $57 = $157 (round that to $175 to include sales taxes)

Where are you going to save that $175 to make up for the NRE costs?

Calculating reduced trips to the gas station (Transportation Costs):
   If a round trip costs $2 in gas and 1 hour of your time
   (valued at, say, $20/hour), each trip avoided saves you $22.
   You'd need to avoid about 8 trips ($175 / $22) to break even.
   Assuming each of those 8 trips represents filling approximately
   20 gallons, that's a 160-gallon break-even point.

However, if you fill up whenever you happen to be near a gas station, then
you save less in transportation costs, and mostly in sheer convenience.

There's also the value of never running out of gas and, in these times, in
stocking up on gasoline before Iran gets bombed to smithereens causing oil
prices to skyrocket from about $75 a barrel to $100 a barrel or whatever.

My suggestion is to find some kind of fuel drum that you can dump the
5-gallon cans into so that you can stockpile about 100 gallons at a time
(half in about 10 gas cans and the other half in the one fuel drum).

Most people who don't understand gasoline would tell you to worry about
degradation but it takes many months for that to happen (which you
ameliorate by storing the fuel in a shaded protected area), and even then,
a vehicle is almost immune to gasoline deterioration despite what the
makers of all sorts of stabilizer concoctions would have you believe,
although small engines are far more sensitive.

Starting at 100 gallons, at an average of 15 gallons per fill up, that's
only 6 fill ups before you need to run out and get more fuel, where four
cars can run though that in just a month so the gas won't sit for long.