Comment on Future apocalypse movies won't have survivors scavaging abandoned cars.

• Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You think you’re going to drive anywhere 2 years after the apocalypse?

  After a winter or two, between abandoned vehicles and lack of maintenance, the roads are going to be impossible to navigate for any distance that you couldn’t just walk or bike.

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  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Depends where you are, in my neck of the woods there are plenty of roads that have been largely abandoned for 20 plus years and are still drivable. Not a comfy ride but still a drive none the less.

    Most road damage comes from being driven on so assuming it doesn’t get undermined most would still be usable even ten years after abandonment, not factoring in getting buried or flooded.

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• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Diesel lasts longer then a year. If you can get a commune going, you can grow diesel fuel from seed oil, but only with older diesel. Not that you’d want to direct too much food resources to transportation, but if you have enough farm land, diesel tractors are much more common then electric and easier to work on.

  You can also run modified gas engines to run off of Wood Gas and wood could be scavenged from most places. Probably the best option for any fast scouting operations, although you would need to let the system idle. The start up process takes some time.

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Can confirm, my dad still uses the same tractor and diesel barrels his grandpa did. They are all from the 70s.

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    • RaccoonBall@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      How’d your grandpa get a multi-decade hoard of diesel in the 70s?

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      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        He got a used tractor and 2 normal-sized unopened barrels of diesel, both manufactured in the 1970s, during the early 1990s privatization of Czechoslovak collective farms. We don’t use the tractor very much (it overheats after about an hour but that’s still way more enough time to plow our little field or haul a wagon) so one barrel is still more than half full.

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• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’d bet on an old diesel running on vegetable oil outlasting an EV.

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  • Oderus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’d rather convert vegetables into oil for diesel fuel than to eat them?

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• FollyDolly@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It depends, because if the car breaks down, you will need parts to fix it. Hopefully parts you can get off another car of similar make. Also older cars can use universal parts, newer cars are more heavily proprietary, so electric may not be the way to go for longterm use.

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