With a spare ignition and controls. Then there's water. Got a well? How about a spare starter? If you're on a sewer line you'll be in deep... Oh, and try and run a gas pump after an EMP attack.Make sure that any spare parts with digital electronics (just about anything, these days) are stored in a Faraday Cage, or an EMP will wipe them out.
I wouldn't worry about gasoline after an EMP attack. You'll be able to syphon it out of the hundreds of millions of dead cars littering the streets.
When it comes to Iran, I will defer to the judgment of Curtis LeMay: “if you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much..” translation, wipe them out.
A Faraday cage controls the E-field, not so much the B-field. They help take the pulse to ground, but only if it is grounded. An old microwave oven with a very short wire to ground will work well.
I wouldn't worry about gasoline after an EMP attack. You'll be able to syphon it out of the hundreds of millions of dead cars littering the streets.
I wouldn't get anywhere near a city with that many cars in such a case.
“You’ll be able to syphon it out of the hundreds of millions of dead cars”
Uh, no you really won’t. Gas has a shelf life of about 6 months, and much less than that if it has ethanol. The ethanol absorbs moisture from the air.
Diesel is the safe bet. If you have a diesel generator you’re set.
I need confirmation: Isn’t the problem ethanol in the gasoline. Unless you have a stabilizer in the gasoline, it will degrade quickly. So all the gasoline in the stalled cars will be useless after a while.
Please confirm this observation.
Would the well pump be down to far to be affected? of is it the electronics on the surface, the infrastructure that you are refering to?