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Portable Generators are a thing and a hell of a lot cheaper than a car. Buy one and stock gasoline for an emergency and you are fine.

How to stock gasoline? Isn't it a fire hazard?

And I won't be digging up a hole in yard and turn into a petrol station.

Gasoline has a somewhat short shelf life.

Gasoline polluted with ethanol has short shelf life. Clean gasoline should last few years.

You rotate it. So keep some in the garage, use it, refill the cans instead of your car.