Diesel still doesn’t last long enough to be functional after twenty years of sitting, but it’s possible for these vehicles to be running on locally produced biodiesel.

That show was not the worst offender. Star Trek: Voyager did an episode where they found a 1937 Ford pickup floating in space, having been somehow transported across the galaxy from when it was new after its owner was kidnapped by aliens along with Amelia Earhart and her navigator from the trip she disappeared on,…

I have a jerry can of gasoline for the lawn mower that I refill every 2-3 YEARS. It stays in the shed during the eastern Canadian winter and the mower starts every spring. You may be over exaggerating how long it takes for gasoline to go bad.

hand-wave hand-wave hand-wave, I’m going to say that Bill the prepper retrofitted his truck (the S-10 in question) with an engine that can run on basically crap. He was more or less ready when everything started so that he put himself in position to survive, so I’m going to say that his particular S-10 is going to do…

Have you noticed politics in recent years. Plenty of fungus infected mutant zombies running amok, some are selling NFTs and Chinese made “MAGA” hats.

If you are building a vehicle from the ground up, steam might work well, but if you are converting a vehicle, wood-gas or biofuel or something would be better. From what I’ve read, gasoline cars aren’t that hard to convert to wood-gas.

I have a Hyundai that spent 15 months in storage through two brutal winters with the same gas I put in it before I left for work overseas and it started without issue when I got back a few weeks ago.

It takes like -150 degrees below zero to freeze gasoline.

I feel like the only post apocalyptic series to ever get the fragility of gasoline was Mad Max. It had to be continually refined, fresh gas, or gas alternative, was always a key plot point.

I believe at least up to a few years ago, they were still doing this in North Korea due to their restricted fuel access:

I feel like that is the most common consensus for continuing to watch The Walking Dead.

I still watch Walking Dead, not because it is an amazing show but jsut because I’m come this far might as well finish it out (is what I said about four seasons ago). Anyway, it is this lack of “realism” that drives me crazy. Boats, cars, and helicopters are still running but no one has made new gas for years and years…

Thank you for that, I’ve been trying to understand how plug-in hybrids where they only gas up once or twice a year don’t have massive problems when the fuel isn’t consumed fast enough. 

This. It’s why PHEVs don’t have many issues from gas sitting. But a modern boat that sits over the winter with ethanol free fuel and stabilizer might still have an unwelcomed surprise once you make it a few hundred feet from the dock.

No. I’ve gone 6 months to a year between fill ups on a car before and they run just fine. If it optimal? No… but will it work fine? Absolutely. When gas. Gets to be 20 years old tho idk.

Fuel degradation is a real thing, but the consequences of it can vary wildly. I regularly run “stale” gas in my snow blower or my generator. “Regularly” is relative, because the reason I “regularly” run old gas is because I don’t regularly run them at all. Most years, I don’t need to run the generator. Some years, I…

It’s complete bollocks. It might have “officially” degraded, but it still does its gasoline thing.

No, for two reasons:

Bring back steam powered transportation cowards. 

whenever big oil fart shortages last for weeks, the first thing that will stop working are cars