Old Fuel

[Mortblanc]

One of my "pet peeves" with modern vehicles in general is the minuscule size of the fuel tanks. They are almost every one designed so that one can get no more then 300 miles on a fill. It does not matter what kind of mileage the vehicle provides either. 25 MPG you get a 12 gallon tank, 50 MPG you get a 5-6 gallon tank.

When I was a young lad I had a jeep that got 20 MPG and had a 25 gallon tank! I drove it while I was in the Army and stationed well away from home. Home was outside Nashville Tennessee and I was planted at Ft Benning, GA. I would fill the tank on Sunday and drive from home to the base, drive from one training point to the other all week, then drive back north to around Macon, GA before I had to refill the tank. I had a 500 mile range!

Until that point in the 1970s, when OPEC decided to punish us over the assistance we gave to Israel after another disastrous Arab attempt at genocide, the average vehicle in the U.S. had a 25 gallon tank. During that "fuel shortage" the prices tripled and people were happy to have the reduced capacity. Their new tank was 1/3 the size of the old ones but the cost of a "fill up" was the same!

It neatly and quietly reduced the ability of a citizen to fill their vehicle and drive half way across the nation before they stopped for fuel. Or to drive for a couple of hundred miles, take care of business and get back home without stepping outside the vehicle.

It also reduced the time one could spend at a BOL with enough fuel in the vehicle to power small engines and garden tools for a decade with the excess fuel in the vehicle tank.

Neat trick to control population movement and food production ability after a disaster.

TPTB still want to keep their peasants poor, starving and unable to move from their patch of land, and it does not matter what country one is in.