On 11/11/2011 15:04, Phil Kane wrote:
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:12:31 EST, Jeffrey
wrote:

Both propane, gasoline and diesel require electrical service
to run the pumps. And tanks that need to be refilled.

And good luck getting a permit for any decent-sized tank for those
fuels in any residential area. I'm talking about 96-hour capacity,
not a five-gallon Jerry can.
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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon

e-mail: k2asp [at] arrl [dot] net


Phil

Perhaps there is that much difficulty getting such permits were you are
but it is not uncommon in Maryland for people to have five hundred
gallon propane tanks when they heat with the stuff. Underground fuel
oil tanks are not uncommon either, although new ones are expensive to
install. Above ground concrete encased tanks are the storage of choice
for commercial sites now because less monitoring for leakage is
required. Those are also fairly pricey though. What you cannot get a
permit for is above ground storage in shipping containers such as five
gallon plastic cans or fifty five gallon drums. If you need to store
fuel in the same containers that will be used to dispense and transport
them then the containers must be stored in a flammable liquids cabinet.
Those are also quite pricey. So the cheapest one to store lawfully
would appear to be propane. My firehouse heated the apparatus bay with
propane and used it to fuel an eighty kilowatt generator/ A five day
outage used two thirds of the propane tanks one thousand gallon
capacity. If that duel fueled unit had had a natural gas connection we
would have had a smaller tank for the propane which would have been used
only as a backup fuel supply.

--
Tom Horne