Re: Gas availability on Hwy 6 at Blackrock Station?

On Sep 14, 2:19�pm, "m...@sushi.com" <m...@sushi.com> wrote:

On Sep 14, 8:23�am, obviouslydelusional

<obviouslydelusio...@gmail.com> wrote:

Anyone know if gas is still readily available on Hwy 6 at Blackrock
Station? �In recent times that was the only gas in the stretch between
Ely and Tonopah and nicely close to Basecamp and the Faultless site.
A while back I had heard it was only open a few days a week, but I
don't know if that's current data.


I used it a year or two ago. You should be able to track down their
phone number and give them a call.

The place is for sale. If you want the back story, the BLM has some
issues with the oil companies using their leased areas as storage
yards. That is, if you are taking up public land, you better be
pumping oil, not storing pipe. �So the gas station owners were trying
to sell the property to the oil company when the market was good. I
have no idea what ever happened. �It was very expensive, like $700k.

Not the safest thing to do, but I sometimes carry some 2.5 gallon gas
cans. When I have driven far enough from Alamo, I use the cans and
often "geocache" them to be retrieved later. This way you let them
vent where they don't stink up your vehicle. If you have a roof rack
or hitch mounted shelf, you don't have to play such games.

Full gas cans are relatively safe, well unless you get in an accident.
Empty cans are really never empty. They have fumes that are easy to
ignite or go off with heat.

I don't know if they still make it, but I have a can of "rescue". It
is a low volatility fuel you can carry safely. [Mine in kept in an
airtight ammo box just to be safe.] When you run out of gas, you pour
the "rescue", but then wait about 10 minutes. Like a fine wine, it has
to breathe. I used mine once when I was in civilization, well, so to
speak. I was a block from the gas station, and the jerk wanted $20 for
an empty gas can. �Very uncivilized. There was a Target (tar-jay)
about a mile away, but I was pressed for time and used the rescue, and
of course filled up at a different gas station than the one trying to
screw me.

If I could recall who makes it, I could get a decent google hit. I
will check it out later.


Thanks for the update.  I did track down their number.  It's
775-863-0119

I haven't yet called.  It seems like rather a mom and pop operation
per the following web item from 2004.  It sounds like it isn't any
sort of leased property, but fee held.  I can't see why an oil company
would be interested in it.  Can't be much profit.  Maybe the mom or
pop passed away and the other wanted/needed to sell?

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