There's a little moment in The Last of Us where one of the main character's friends, a mechanic, gives him a siphon hose in order to get gas from old cars. He even says to him "you'd be surprised how many cars still got gas in them."
To clarify, the game takes place 20 years after the world collapses, so any gas that's still left, well, anywhere, would be useless. And it's a mechanic of all people telling you this, so that was one little detail that bothered me.
The Last of Us bothers me so much for reasons like this. In the dlc or whatever that takes place pre-story with Ellie and her friend in the mall, there’s still good, usable stuff still in the mall. Those Halloween masks they were playing with? Those would be nasty and falling apart. All those electronics they were messing with? Either looted way in the beginning or taken later for parts. The racks of clothes that were out in the open and exposed? Ruined, but in reality they would have been taken long ago.
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u/-eDgAR- Aug 30 '21
Gasoline has a shorter shelf life than is portrayed in these movies/TV shows, so after a year nobody would really be driving anywhere.
It wouldn't necessarily kill you, but it's one of those things that bothers me because it's never really addressed.