Bulk fuel

[SNKETR]

Does anyone keep bulk fuel or have it delivered? With what's going on and looking at the efficiency of gas vs diesel vs propane generators, i got to wondering about keeping a diesel tank on the property. Similar to an ag operation. Then i could fill up the truck and have diesel on hand for a generator as well.

Wondering if there is any savings/gallon having diesel delivered. Restrictions and anything else required to store large volumes.

[Arrowsmith]

Our Ag COOP (Nutrien Ag Services) delivers to me and my neighbors. We just keep gasoline on hand. Three of my neighbors (large farm operations) have 500 gallon diesel and gas tanks and they keep 55 gallon drums of hydraulic oil.

[S-3 Ranch]

I buy bulk from Pico petroleum, they deliver to sisterdale, and bring ethanol free gasoline
And whatever diesel fuel is in season

[Drycreek3189]

I’ve thought about it but haven’t acted on it. When I was a contractor I had some mobile fuel tanks, I wish I had kept one when I sold out. I could use a tank with gas in one end and diesel in the other. Gravity flow would be good enough. My local distributor will keep it full for me.

[Smeone]

you need to keep the fuel in condition diesel can go bad sooner than gas

in the temperatures Texas just had #2 diesel would freeze especially the filters so you need conditioner in it (the debate is endless on what brand of that to use and how much) and you need to make sure the conditioned fuel is in the filter......so you do not use unconditioned fuel all year and then pour some conditioner in the tank in just before extreme cold and unconditioned fuel is still in the filters freezing up because you did not run enough through to get conditioned fuel in there

you might need some spill containment for the tank and over a particular volume you will absolutely need spill containment or the dealer will not fill it

one advantage is you can buy when you feel the price is lower like back during the pandemic in the late spring and early summer when gas was $.99 cents in some parts of Oklahoma and diesel was not much more

you can also buy untaxed "red" off road fuel but of course you can only use it in off road vehicles and it takes time to get it out of the vehicle system if you "sneak some in" during an emergency

and yes they will dip vehicle tanks and look at filters (I don't think Texas is as bad as some states) and they will generally do it at the cattle auction, the county fair, perhaps the grain elevator or other places where they think they can catch large amounts of diesel trucks at one time and run a bunch of checks on them and if you are caught with red fuel in the tank it cost A LOT

your delivery company might even turn you in if they suspect that you are running off road fuel in on road vehicles......like if you have a 35hp tractor on your ranchette that always looks new and lightly used, but you are using 300 gallons of off road fuel a month......that would be rare, but it could happen I believe the tax man might even look over their sales records some

fuel theft is an issue even on occupied properties especially depending on where you have your tanks

if you use a lot of taxed road fuel you can burn it in off road use (generators during an emergency like now and tractors ect) and then apply to get the taxes back on those gallons, but expect to fill out a lot of paperwork to do so and to have your use looked over a lot

keeping it in condition if you do not use a lot is the main issue other than that the issue is like a large propane tank you just need to be ahead of the game and get it topped off before the "emergency rush" and the delivery guy can't get you on the list