Just thought you folks might like to share a sight I just saw.

On the way in from town I stopped to top off at the gas station, and what did I see? A man with a trailer loaded with at least six 55 gallon drums that he was filling to capacity.

Maybe he was just stocking up for a weekend of 4-wheeling at the dunes.

-- Holly Douglas (hollydouglas@hotmail.com), December 23, 1999

Answers

Maybe it's just a new, New Year cocktail mix?

-- Richard (Astral-Acres@webtv.net), December 23, 1999.

Miss Douglas,

You can just imagine what next week at the gas station is going to be like. six 55 gallon drums equals 330 gal. he should have just ordered from an oil company!!! lol

That must have been a funny site. Please check out the c4ixxx thread below.

-- d----- (dciinc@aol.com), December 23, 1999.

I called the distributor this morning to get our tanks filled with diesel and gasoline. He siad he was really busy and looking to be a lot busier next week. He said he was getting calls from everyone want ing to fill those tanks before the end of the year.

-- Linda A. (adahi@muhlon.com), December 23, 1999.

Let's hope he's got a fork lift. Water weighs 8.5+ pounds per gallon and (as I recall) gas is somewhere around 6 pounds per gallon. That means each of his barrels will weigh over 300 pounds.

-- Dave Craig (DesertDave@aol.com), December 24, 1999.

Oops! I meant to add that you shouldn't put 55 gal. in a 55 gal. drum. 50 gal. is about the limit unless you are sure you will be empting it RIGHT AWAY The top five gal. space is for expansion. A full unvented drum can burst.

-- David Craig (DesertDave@aol.com), December 24, 1999.

Hey people, we got a three day storm ahead of us, and the fuel is needed to get across it. Person needs hundreds of gallons to fuel the litle escort sitting in the drive, or the little honda.

-- Notforlong (Fsur439@aol.com), December 24, 1999.

get a brace of mountain bikes!

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), December 24, 1999.

This is what I love about this forum...sifting the chaff from the wheat. Obviously you have no experience behind you re fuel. We store 2000 gal ON A REGULAR BASIS. With the exception of the off road fuel, we carry it home in 55 gal drums. The flat bed easily holds about 10 of these drums.(diesel). The reason? Because we can buy it for $0.08 to $0.10 per gallon cheaper at the local truck stop than having it delivered by the oil company. We take the drums and we fill them at the truck stop. When we get home, chubby hubby, puts in the drum pump and fills the big tanks. He also has about 6 drums of diesel that he keeps full by pumping from one drum on the truck into the drums on the rack. So don't go making jokes of what you don't know. It could be someone stocking up (oil companies, at least in Florida, will not fill drums, only approved storage tanks)as part of his preps or it could be a farmer prepping for getting his spring crop planted. And you damn well better hope that the farmer's do get their crops planted...along with the fact that y'all better learn which end of a hoe to use this spring.

Taz...who reads this forum muttering to herself, "they don't have a clue"......!!

-- Taz (Tassi123@aol.com), December 24, 1999.

Don't let CNN see that! They would say it is TERRORISM!!!!!! TERRORISM, I TELL YA!!!!!!

-- preparing (preparing@home.com), December 24, 1999.