On Monday, July 30, 2012 4:48:15 PM UTC-5, John H wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:57:14 -0400, wrote:



On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:01:20 -0400, John H.

wrote:



On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:44:01 -0400, wrote:



On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:20:26 -0400, John H.

wrote:



On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:55:38 -0400, Wayne.B wrote:



Any of you who have ever depended on a small home generator during an

extended power outage will appreciate the fact that gasoline can

become difficult to obtain. This is further compounded by the

problems of storing ethanol gas for any length of time. After

hurricane Charlie here in SW Florida my neighbor and I took turns

driving 50 miles round trip every night for over a week to buy

generator gas.



I just found a web site selling propane and natural gas conversion

kits for small gasoline generators if anyone is interested. I have

no personal interest (or experience) with their products.



http://www.propane-generators.com/



Cool! I'd never thought about that, but it makes good sense for the little Generac I use with the

camper. Then I wouldn't have to carry three fuels, diesel, propane, and gasoline. Will definitely

look into that.



Propane is only attractive if you have a bulk tank in the yard.



Those 20 and 30 pound tanks are pretty expensive to fill.



The perfect system is natural gas if you can get it.



Well, I'm already carrying four 20lb tanks on the fiver, Not having to carry gasoline may make it

worthwhile. The tanks run me $17 or so to fill. Don't know how long one of those would last on the

generator. But, we'd be using it only when roughing it somewhere, like on the side of a rode while

riding to Alaska.



The 17# tank is about like 3 gallons of gasoline, give or take.

You get less bang for the gallon on propane so it is probably a bit

less.



Well, at $3.79/gal, there's not a whole hell of a lot of difference. The convenience might be worth

it. But, I can suffer a lot of inconvenience for $380, or whatever!

That's less than an airplane ticket!