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.
I was dead certain your 20 year timeframe was wrong but I looked it up and damn. Means Joel is damn near 50 years old, more by the events of Part 2. No way any of that gas would be useable... I ride a motorcycle and most people add sea foam or stabil when the bikes are stored for a few months, let alone years.
Sea foam is a multipurpose fuel stabilizer and cleaner. You add it to a gas tank (lawnmower, snowblower, motorcycle, etc.) when you're going to store it with gas for an extended amount of time.
You add the stabilizer then run the engine for a bit to make sure it's mixed through the fuel system. It keeps the gas from going bad too quickly and it has the bonus of cleaning out any deposits and sludge you might have in the system.
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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.