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To: elcid1970
My Mom’s 1991 Mercury Sable suddenly looks like a prepper asset. Kept indoors for two decades, very low mileage, simple systems, runs great & probably somewhat EMP resistant.

Where will you get gas for it? Electronics are needed to pump gas from a service station into the car, to deliver it to the service station, to pump it out of the ground in the first place, to refine it into gasoline, to pay for the work at every step in the process...No, I think that when you've used up whatever small reserves of gasoline you can store on your property, you'll be motionless like everyone else.

Me, I'm glad I have access to horses. And I am packing to move further out into the countryside where I can survive better.

To be realistic, after an EMP event I wouldn't last too long, as I'm a lady in her late middle years, on my own, and I need medication to live. A single person can't defend a homestead for long. Stocking up on my meds only prolongs the inevitable, but I will fight it out as long as I can.

149 posted on 08/01/2013 7:24:02 AM PDT by ottbmare (the OTTB mare)
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To: ottbmare

Gas will be available for as long as there are inoperable cars with gas tanks. Sure the gas will degrade over time but it will work for 6-12 months.

The bigger problem will probably be the lack of passable roads.


150 posted on 08/01/2013 7:33:45 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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