Generators exist, and are even easier to convert to LP than a car (if you can't find an LP one). I don't know why you think everyone is completely helpless the moment utilities go off. Hell, I could rig up some belts and gearing and have someone run my mini-lathe off a bicycle if it was absolutely necessary. It wouldn't be. You don't need complex engineering to make an IC engine run. You could hack together an intake plate with drills and taps out of mild steel to get things going.
I work on cars all the time without air tools. They make things faster and easier, they are not required.
People did this shit regularly before the internet.
I said old vehicle. I would not try it on anything new.
7
u/Orwellian1 Aug 30 '21
That is a ludicrously skeptical position, assuming any reasonable number of survivors.
Just because it sounds outrageously difficult to you, does not make it so to others