What are the dangers of storing gasoline inside your home? Is allowed? We solve all your doubts about storing fuel at home.
It is likely that, taking advantage of some occasion in which fuels have been especially cheap (surely this has not happened in 2022), you have felt the need to buy gasoline or diesel to keep it at home as a reserve for when prices rise again.
However, storing gasoline inside your home is a practice that carries a series of dangers to take into account. Although it is true that it is allowed to do so, there are a series of requirements that you must meet before buying tanks and filling them with gasoline or diesel to leave them stored at home.
Don’t even think about doing it: these are the dangers of storing gasoline inside your house
One of the rules that private customers must comply with is that they cannot buy more than 60 liters of fuel for each container, limiting gasoline to 60 liters and diesel to 240 liters. Nor can you store the fuel you buy in bottles, tanks or any recent, only those duly approved drums that you can buy, for example, at the gas station itself.
The DGT also does not recommend transporting fuel in the car and, if it does, it does not allow it in the same space as the passengers, so it will have to go in the trunk and in a hermetically sealed container made of approved materials. Of course, it must be properly secured. Failure to comply with these rules, the fine will amount to 3,000 euros.
On the other hand, it is not advisable to store gasoline or diesel at home, since, in addition to the drums in which they can be transported taking up a lot of space, fuels lose their properties quickly, degrading while losing their qualities.
If you store gasoline inside the house in drums or containers that are not approved for it, you expose yourself to dangers that affect your health caused by the vapors that emanate from the fuel, such as redness and burning in the eyes, retinal detachment and blindness, hearing loss and smell, diarrhea, vomiting and perforation of the esophagus, among others.
In addition to these obvious health problems caused by the vapors that emanate from fossil fuels, it is especially dangerous to store gasoline improperly at home, since they can cause detonations or, in the event of a fire, accelerate the flames, making it difficult to extinguish them.
