Old Fuel

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(4 September 2018, 18:23)Pete Grey Wrote: I seem to remember reading that people evacuating florida due to an approaching hurricane, caught in traffic jams and running out of fuel.

It happens every year Pete. You can't fix stupid.

It is one reason that the evacuation notices are given well ahead of the event. The ones in the big traffic pile ups are the ones that waited till the last minute.

If you start your journey in a SHTF situation with an empty tank and expect to get petrol on the road you are going to run out.

If you sit in your vehicle with the motor running long enough you will run out of fuel. I believe that is called common knowledge. It does not take an expert prepper to figure that one out.

That is the case even though the modern vehicle will only burn a liter an hour or less with smaller engines. With a 20 liter load, or 6 gallons, one could run at idle for nearly 20 hours before the engine died.

During Katrina and Rita there were huge traffic pile ups and people died in place due to heat stroke and heart attack, but the storm did not kill them. They were running their engines nonstop so the air conditioners would keep them cool in the Texas heat, which often exceeds 35c in that area.

That was due to the evacuation notice not being issued until too late by TPTB in those areas when any 12 year old could look at the weather channel radar and say "We need to get out of Dodge!" for nearly a week before the event. The person/mayor in charge eventually wound up in prison for graft and incompetence.

But people running out of fuel is not the topic of this thread, which is about life span of petrol.