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Transcription: Meme with mad max-type cars facing the viewer with the caption: "It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of car culture"

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Unless gastown is sitting on one giant underground oil reservoir that they actively pump themselves .... gastown will run out of fuel as fast as everyone else.

It very conveniently pumps it's own oil from the sands! But fiction aside - I do think gas is a resource that would be processed and controlled throughout a mad max like downfall. Too much in war depends on fossil transport to allow that supply chain to crumble. Just reinforces the meme lol.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I agree ... in a post apocalyptic collapse everyone will be scrambling to control fuel reserves ... but the only places that will occur is wherever the oil or raw resources are located in the ground. For the first few years, everyone will fight for whatever fuel is lying around in tanks or storage facilities. After that everyone will go after the sources because none of it will survive being transported anywhere far from where it is manufactured. Everywhere else that is not within about 50 - 100 km of a fuel source will revert to the middle ages and will be using horses, swords and bows and arrows.

A better use for any fuel that anyone could have is to use it as a weapon like Greek Fire .... or mixing it with wax or styrofoam to use it as napalm for offensive attacks or defence against attackers