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Invertors are just about the coolest thing ever invented.

I've seen this done before and I was beyond impressed.

https://www.eetimes.com/use-your-car-as-a-vehicle-to-home-power-plant/

Thank you for confirming.

If batteries are the heart of your system you have lots of problems anyway. Unfortunately the batteries are the most expensive, most complex, and most maintenance intensive part. Solar is a better match for charging batteries at the C/8 rate (8 hours to fill, 4 hours from half charge) which is best way for a flooded lead acid battery. A charge cycle will have the generator running for 4 hours whenever the batteries hit half-charge, and you still need inverters and all the other crap. If batteries are going to be your main power source then solar is actually a really good option, geography permitting. Having big batteries and inverters allows you to right-size the generator to some extent down towards average load, and that's good. And you'd want this anyway because you really can't repeatedly charge batteries too fast.

I used to run solar in an RV. I lived off of it. I know how to design a solar system and the first rule of that is to take what you need and then at the very least double it. A system that has panels, batteries, and a generator might actually come in the cheapest because you could actually right-size everything and run the generator very rarely and shoot for a 20 year TBO on runtime. You'd use less fuel, fewer panels, and fewer batteries, and you'd have much more redundancy. tldr; solar is good.

No I wasn't joking. The sales pitch is sleek but something seemed fucky.
I already knew it wasn't what I needed. But the attraction to it was gas wasn't needed.

Some guy on here posted about Amish people and how they do ,so Ive forgotten about those generators and have been interested in a propane fridge.

This is why I looked. Shtf and you can't store gas forever. But 2000 is steep.

Some guy on here awhile ago posted about what the Amish do, so now I've been interested in a propane refrigerator.

I think you're vastly overestimating the power some things use, a radio for example can be powered adequately by six square inches of solar panel.

They work like any Two Stroke engine.

That can work but a dedicated truck is just easier. Just depends on how that skid is set up and who packaged it but i usually zip tie a bucket underneath and use my flexible funnel. Letting that drain back go for a good while while you're doing other stuff. On the bigger engines like the 3600 you've gotta use that drain back or its gonna make a huge mess. If it's not tied in properly sometimes if I have extra tubing I'll go ahead and just make a drain back line just to save that mess.