All this fuel talk when IRL you can't drive anywhere if fuel in the tank is older than several weeks.
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It takes much longer than that for gas to go bad... I have left untreated gas in lawnmowers, motorcycles, boats etc for entire off-seasons (plus a couple months on top of that) and the gas still goes boom just fine. I wouldn't race with it... And I'm sure it would test at a lower octane level, but it will still run an engine
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>Survivor finds car
>plenty fuel
>pry open gas cap
>siphon
>go back home and run generator.
> Its electric
collect batteries and add it to the solar/battery bank back at base.
Boogie woogie woogie
Trigra masapara tubi top top tubi
For the longest time I through those were the words. I barely spoke any English then. The 80's and 90's are a slight blur. Please don't send me to Guantanamo.
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They'll be dragging classic cars out of people's garages and sheds.
If you were going to be realistic about this, it would be old, mechanical injection diesel engines still going long after the apocalypse. And bicycles, of course.
If you are being realistic, your best shot is probably EVs and having solar panels, those can maybe last about 20 years.
Diesel and Petrol will go bad in a year.
Either way you are on a finite resource, so the actual best bet is having horses
You think you’re going to drive anywhere 2 years after the apocalypse?
After a winter or two, between abandoned vehicles and lack of maintenance, the roads are going to be impossible to navigate for any distance that you couldn’t just walk or bike.
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Diesel lasts longer then a year. If you can get a commune going, you can grow diesel fuel from seed oil, but only with older diesel. Not that you'd want to direct too much food resources to transportation, but if you have enough farm land, diesel tractors are much more common then electric and easier to work on.
You can also run modified gas engines to run off of Wood Gas and wood could be scavenged from most places. Probably the best option for any fast scouting operations, although you would need to let the system idle. The start up process takes some time.
Can confirm, my dad still uses the same tractor and diesel barrels his grandpa did. They are all from the 70s.
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What i learned from doomsday preppers is that you need guns and food and shelter. Apparently it doesn't matter that you're an unfit fuck that can't walk 20m without a car.
Or that you wouldn't last a year without your statin.
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What if there's like a dark cloud allover the earth, how many human body should I plug into my car so I could get toilet paper in the nearest Walmart?
Bikes are the apocalypse ideal vehicle. They are immensely underrated on apocalyptic media.
Fuel I need to constantly scavenger? No thanks.
Noise that would attract the zombies? No thanks.
The highway is collapsed and my RV cannot go through? No thanks.
A bike would get you quite good through many apocalyptic scenarios.
You should read the book "Wolf and Iron"
Lol check out modern bikes with electric shifters.
Or just use Heelys like a normal person.
Omg just imagine the war boys from fury road gracefully gliding down the road screaming 'witness me' 😂
Mad Max the musical now on Broadway
Man those electric stuntbikes with a screen are hot asf. But they are dangerous.
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Even right now. Look at how people have to wait in huge lines to get some gas every time there is a natural disaster, or extreme weather. After a few days, or even hours, it's mostly gone.
That's why I always have 120 litres of diesel stored at home in jerrycans plus what ever is left in the tank. If the shit ever hits the fan and I need to get away quick then the gas station is among the last places I want to go fist fighting to.
I rigged up fuel lines so my small diesel generator can run off the heating oil tank. I have about 100 days of nonstop power. If shit looked really bad though, I'd be rationing that fuel on a 50/50 duty cycle or so to keep the fridge chilling while I use power for other things.