and by the way, it was astutely observed that this can't happen, panic buying gas, in those few places where customers can't pump their own gas. Huh. Well, I guess that is true, sorta, they can still fill their 40 gallon RV tank, go home, pump it out, and then return to the gas station a couple more times until they fill a big god damn cube like this.
But,....at the rate modern gas goes bad,this could be junk before the zombies come.
ReplyDeletemodern gas is easily good for 8 months, and right now just getting through 2021 might be all any of us hope for.
ReplyDeleteWait, if you're commenting as just a car guy, who the hell am I commenting as?
Full electric is better for Zombieapocalypse, gas will evaporate pretty fast in non secure locations, the secured ones will run out of it. But electricity, this thing you can make from a lot of things, including potatoes. So gas is gas, but damn be ready to go full off the grid with own power supply and electric powered car.
ReplyDeletegood point! Solar, wind, and water will still be around to charge batteries. But 10 years later the batteries will be no good, and model T will still be ready to drive if you can distill potent ethanol.
DeleteTrue, true... good point. Accumulators do worn out with time, so you need the most resilient one. Vanadium ones, could work even for 14k cycles up to 30 years, with couple of ideas to even enhance number of cycles by regeneration. Flow accumulators also have good life cycle. So you need a custom build grid and custom build vehicle using the best elements that are not used in mass produced cars for obvious reasons. And indeed moving with time to ethanol production will be long term goal for fuel supply, so hybrid system (custom build) would be the most resilient for first years, then electric and when production of ethanol reach a proper level again to hybrid.
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