Fuel does degrade but if its properly stored and sealed it can last for years - not indefinitely of course but we are only talking a short span of years here with the war - even with the TDM and other late 1997 attacks there would have still been fuel being delivered probably until around mid spring to early summer of 1998, possibly further until the last of the electric generation facilities that were still functioning ran out of fuel or had to shut down or were taken out in the 1998 weak nuclear exchange
now if you are talking 2005, 2010 time frame thats really pushing it for storage - but 2000-2001 it should still be in very good shape if its properly stored and capped
to give an example - I had a gasoline can with five gallons of gas in it that I put a stabilizer in to keep it from getting water in it - used it this spring after two years in storage - worked like a charm
now without that stabilizer and if I had left the vent cap off - no way
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