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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 days agoDiesel 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.
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.
RaccoonBall@lemm.ee 3 days ago
How’d your grandpa get a multi-decade hoard of diesel in the 70s?
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 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.