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The country where the internal combustion engine originated might be among the first to ban it. Germany’s Federal Administrative Court ruled Tuesday that cities have the right to ban gasoline and diesel vehicles in an attempt to curb pollution. “These vehicles have no place in our cities anymore,” Jürgen Resch, the managing director of an ...

The state of Oregon has finally loosened restrictions that prohibited residents from pumping their own gas – even though it’s still illegal in most of the state. Self-service gas stations became legal in 15 rural Oregon counties on Monday. The ...

The United States is in danger of even more devastating gasoline shortages like the one that crippled the South in September thanks to an aging pipeline infrastructure that is decades old. More than 60 percent of America’s pipelines that carry ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Drivers in North Carolina, South Carolina and several other Southern states continued hunting for gasoline Wednesday morning following a major pipeline leak, as the company in charge of fixing the problem said it would take “several days” ...

Stockpiling supplies for an emergency is at the very core of survival. Unfortunately, though, not everything stores well, especially when we’re talking about months and years. Most food items don’t store well, but we are able to make up for ...

Unless you happen to be a multi-millionaire who owns oil wells and a refinery, you won’t be able to be 100 percent self-sufficient. Unfortunately, gasoline is most likely a key part of your life. So one key element of living ...

Let’s say your car has broken down or run out of gasoline and you are miles away from civilization. You have two options: You can walk out, or you can stay where you are and wait for help. There’s pros ...

Having a staple supply of gasoline and other fuel is an absolute necessity if you are very serious about preparing for emergencies. Fuel powers your generator and your vehicles, essential items in a grid-down situation. Even though gasoline, diesel, propane ...

When fuel such as diesel or gasoline is readily available, most people don’t think of the ramifications of storing it. After all, if you need more, just go to the pump and get it! But in a survival situation, especially ...

One of the shortages that everyone expects to occur in a power grid-down situation is a shortage of any type of fuel. For this reason, some people have at least one vehicle that runs off of diesel, and have put ...