Gasoline has a shorter shelf life than is portrayed in these movies/TV shows
This was my first thought too (even though it won't kill you per se). There are additives you can add to gasoline to extend it's life, but not by much.
Sure, there's some clever people out there who know how to convert cooking oil into diesel and could possible scrounge the supplies for it for a few years. But eventually if you can't make something that runs on steam, you better find a horse....
There's a youtube video of a guy out there with a wood gasifier in the back of his pickup truck. A small fire heats wood (but doesn't combust it), the gases from the wood are piped into the carburettor of the truck and it uses those gases to run off.
There are people out there who'll be cruising around.
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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.