That is priceless.... Tell us more about your book or freepmail me... I was crazy about Newt and Forstchen’s “One Second After.”
When we retired and moved from CA to GA, we sold my 1978 Chevy Malibu - completely restored beautifully - and how I wished later we had made arrangements to bring it with us. It would start in case of EMP I’m told but what to do about pumping gas? Out of luck, I guess! Oh! Well! Such are the decisions we make and live with!
The lack of gas is not an issue in an immediate issue with an EMP.
If you assume that 90% of vehicles would stop workingin a worst case scenario, then you have plenty of gasoline for months for the vehicles which do work. A mathematical example:
A town of 5,000 people where there are 5,200 working vehicles would lose use of 4,680 vehicles in a worst case scenario. If the average fuel tank for those vehicles is 20 gallons, and the average tank is at 40% capacity, that would mean that the people of the town would have access to 37,400 gallons of gasoline for the 520 working vehicles.
Or (at an average 20 gallon tank) about 3 1/2 fill ups per working vehicle.
With proper rationing and judicious use of vehicles, you would have months of gasoline available.