Timeline for Automobiles after the apocalypse
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| Oct 2, 2014 at 20:44 | comment | added | Kromey | @bowlturner But then again while there may be fewer people, repeated asteroid hits would have done quite a number on existing fuel stores... | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 19:54 | comment | added | Toby Allen | Any Diesel engine not just tractors will work on vegetable oil (that's what bio fuel is) there are certain additives that make it better for the engine and cold temperatures might cause problems, but that's all diesel is, is another kind of oil. | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 18:35 | comment | added | bowlturner | Well with fewer people you will have a much smaller need and people will be more likely to think about their travels more than just take off and expect to have a fuel source when they run low. | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 18:25 | comment | added | Kromey | Hadn't thought about biofuels, though thinking about it now there's even ways today to convert gasoline engines to run on them. But don't those pretty much rely upon the scale of McDonald's serving umpteen million burgers? Would they be even remotely feasible in the smaller scales of civilization being knocked back to Medieval European scale? | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 18:20 | comment | added | user | Regarding the point about old tractors, hot bulb engines is one kind of engine that can run on almost anything that you can make burn. However they are pretty rare these days. | |
| Oct 2, 2014 at 18:10 | history | answered | bowlturner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |