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1. You don’t want to trust any tool you get at the Dollar Store they tend to break catastrophically often injuring the user.

2. About oil storage: I wonder how the real shelf life is for canned oil in pressurized spray cans. There is no light, no oxygen and it is pressurized with butane.

3. Cooking oil storage is not as big a deal as you may imagine. Olive oil in cans will out last the cans, I have personally had Canola oil stored for 13 years in a dark place that was not all that cool in semi clear jugs that was just like new when I finally checked it. We used it in everyday use. Once opened and subjected to oxygen and/or light the oil begins to break down and will go rancid if not used in a reasonable period of time. I have found that old oil can be mixed with diesel fuel and runs my generator quite well, it even is a little quieter. A word of caution when doing this, use all this fuel 1st and do not let it sit in the tank for a long period of time, It will form a non dissolvable polymer over time that will require a complete fuel system cleaning and I can attest to how hard it is to get this sticky stuff out of the system, nothing seems to dissolve it other than soap and water.

4. You can also go online to can butter. If you have a pressure canner. We canned our’s two years ago,it is supposed to be good for at least three years. I suspect that it will last longer than that.

5. WATER.
   Probably the main reason I bugged out years ago to my bug out location.
   Anyone that thinks they can “bug out” after things get bad will find life extremely difficult if not impossible.
   Try imagining the search for water on a daily/hourly basis trying to escape from a built up area to your secluded retreat. It will consume your entire day. You’ll be very lucky to survive.
   Move NOW.

6. Bless you for helping and giving use direction & hints on survival trends following us, if we’ll listen. I hope our POTUSOA holds up while many held out no hope. Everything going by so many people suffer from psychotic egos dripping with the arrogance of ignorance. I was 6 at Pearl Harbor….9 at the Normandy invasion….listened on the radio briefly “we might not make it” with my mother. When we won & they came home, we all new the names and duty of the returning vets. My brother John at 19 years old flew in the CBI theatre of war. At 19 years old he lost 2 or 3 planes (cargo C 47s in the 322nd troop carrier squadron 13 th AF. He was 92 when he passed & was Director of NewarkAirport. Try finding a 19 year old today ………..

7. Lard lasts forever (pork, not vegetable shortning)

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