I agree, the best fire tinder I have ever used is dryer lint, all you have to do is get a spark on it and it goes up quick. I would stuff a small zip lock bag full of dryer lint, throw it in your pack, and load the match container with good quality strike anywhere matches and fire will never be an issue for you.

Does suicide mean anything to ya?

Gasoline will melt the plastic and leak out destroying anything it comes contact with and if it gets a spark or flame??

O’BROTHER!

Ya’Came to the right place Mister!

Looking for something that really works and I mean really works even after being stored wet for a long long time! Well by’golly get’ya a small jar of good old fashion Vaseline from and a magnesium fire starter stick from your local Wal-Mart. So simple of an operation I bet David can do it. Take a 2x2 inch piece of cloth and saturate it with Vaseline and scrape a little magnesium on it and hit it with the flint side and now you have instant fire 6 to 10 minutes of flame, now compare that with any other lighter and remember you haven’t really used your fire starting resources at all. I still got the same Vaseline jar in my back pack some 10 years ago and still work as good as the day I put it in.

PS 2oz of gas will last like 2oz of gas! Kinda like a popcorn fart, ya'know what I mean dar Vern!

You're asking for trouble with gasoline for all the above reasons. Pack a few candles and a bic lighter.

Gasoline in your pack is dangerous and not very useful.
I use cotton balls saturated in Vaseline stored in a heavy plastic ziploc bag. I can be stored flat in almost any pocket or pouch in your pack. Pull out a cotton ball and light it, it will burn very hot for very long.
I also keep a few tea-light candles. Very small candles in their own tin, buy them by the gross from wal-mart for about $5. These allow you to provide light and heat to a small space or to light a fire very easily, even when everything is wet. Reuseable and cheap.
A magnesium fire starter with a flint down the back side is very useful, but keep with it a small section of carbon-steel hacksaw blade. The hacksaw blade allows you to make magnesium shavings easily and gives you something to make sparks with the flint. A stainless steel knife blade will not work to make sparks on the flint-side of the block. If you have a carbon steel knife blade you are ok.
Practice with these items in your backyard so that you can use them to make fire, because when you are wet and cold and need a fire is not the time to start learning.
AlaskanExile

I work in an ER as a Trauma RN. I have seen many people come in who tried to start a fire with gasoline. Bad idea!!!!
Learn basic fire building skills and you will never ask about gasoline or other liquid fire starters again.

Gasoline is close to suicide, use a road flare or the vasoline trick. if you use gas you will at a minmum lose the hair off one hand and probably worse :)

Absolutely not. Use that space for cotton balls soaked in petroleum jelly. Will be much much safer, burn longer and works great.

whatever happened to keeping a rolled up newspaper in your sleeping bag or pack

if you want to increase you odds of having problems, sure go ahead