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In Real Life, gasoline is a very refined and volatile product. Creating usable gasoline (or any other petroleum-based fuel) requires extracting petroleum from the ground, and separating the various elements of it by carbon chain in an oil refinery. Gasoline is meant to be used soon after production, and has a usable shelf life of about three to five months. With fuel stabilizer you can extend that shelf life out several times as much but no matter what you add or how you store it, storing it for more than two years is out of the question. After that, it starts to break down and vaporize. The non-volatile component left behind is a useless gunk — usually called "varnish" in the trade, though it's not exactly the best thing to waterproof your wooden table — that has to be cleaned out of the engine. But in today's modern world of nigh-ubiquitous motor vehicles, this is rarely a real problem.note Except when it comes to outdoor equipment like lawnmowers that use two-stroke or other small gas engines, which are normally put away for the winter and will likely develop a gunked-up carburetor in the springtime if untreated fuel is overlooked and left in the tank. In fiction, on the other hand, gasoline is just an eternally lasting liquid fuel that can sit anywhere for any period of time, and be as usable as the day it was refined. This is common in post-apocalyptic fiction, where everyone is driving around in cars and scrounging for precious drops of gas long after any refineries would stop producing. If such a post-apocalyptic world did occur in reality, we would be able to drive around for a few months, but afterwards, unless someone got a refinery up and running again, every gas-powered vehicle on the planet would be 100% useless. This is basically a Sub-Trope of Ragnarök Proofing, in that something leftover from the old society still works despite it being impossible. Sometimes this is handwaved through Applied Phlebotinum, but often it just assumes that audiences think gasoline is eternal... probably because audiences learned it from them. Also a Sub-Trope of Apocalyptic Logistics, since fiction set a long amount of time after the end of the world has survivors (or their descendants) using gasoline that had clearly been made before the world-ending event, despite the fact that it would be useless by that point. This trope doesn't only happen in post-apocalyptic fiction either. Sometimes people find a vehicle that goes for years or even decades unused, and they turn the key and it immediately turns on and works perfectly. Ignoring the fact that OTHER parts of the vehicle would need restoration, the gasoline still in the tank would be completely unusable and that transport is going nowhere. Often overlaps with No Bikes in the Apocalypse, which is about a different piece of transportation technology not being used even though it can be. Subtrope of Artistic License – Chemistry and Artistic License – Cars. See also Bottomless Fuel Tanks, where vehicles in Video Games run on unlimited fuel. |
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Uncle Scrooge: In "Chugwagon Derby" by Carl Barks, Scrooge reveals that as young man he bought a horseless carriage when they were first becoming available. However, after discovering that he could walk faster than the car could drive, he hid it away in a barn; afraid that people would laugh at him for his foolishness. However, after Donald shows him how you can make money in vintage car contests, he goes and hauls it out from under the pile of old harness where it is hiding. He comments that it runs on a mixture of kerosene and whale oil and, to his delight, he discovers there is still $1's worth in the tank. The fires the car up and it starts immediately. As the story was first published in 1961, the car and fuel would have had to have been sitting there for about 60 years. | |
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Arrow. In the Season 2 flashbacks on Lian Yu, our heroes get both a World War 2 Japanese submarine and the Kaiten manned suicide torpedoes it's armed with running again. | |
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In The Simpsons episode "The Principal and the Pauper", Armin Tamzarian (the former Principal Skinner) goes to the storage locker where he keeps all his stuff from his rebel days. His old motorcycle is in there, and despite being untouched for well over 40 years, it still works perfectly and gets Skinner to Capitol City. | |
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In The Last of Us, Bill gives Joel some siphoning equipment to get gasoline out of cars for his truck he just gave him. Since the game takes place 20 years after the end of civilization, the gasoline in those cars should be too old to be usable. | |
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Into the Forest has a downplayed example. There's never any concern about whether the sisters' gasoline will go bad, though this may simply be due to their ignorance. After at least a few months, it still powers the generator perfectly fine. After at least 15 months of storage, the gas is still volatile enough to be set ablaze with a spark, which might be possible. | |
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Another World War II thriller, Northern Pursuit, has German commandos infiltrating Canada in 1943 so they can assemble a plane hidden in the far north before the war. Naturally, the plane starts up and flies. | |
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Jurassic World: When Zach and Gray find the remains of the original Jurassic Park they also find the jeeps in the garage. The fuel inside is still usable despite it sitting there for over 20 years. | |
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Waterworld has interesting take on this trope, as the vehicles run on oil, not gasoline. Crude oil does have a longer shelf life, about ten years, but no vehicle in the world would use something so unevenly mixed as fuel (and a post-apocalyptic society couldn't build something that could). The setting is also implied to be hundreds of years, long past when those extra ten years would matter. | |
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The Last of Us (2023): Downplayed, but still present. Joel has to refuel Bill's truck from siphoned gas about once an hour, and says that the fuel is too degraded to get more use out of. In reality, fuel degradation sets in much quicker, and the gas one would find in highway wrecks would be useless after just a year, much less twenty. | |
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48 Hrs. is another non-apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic example. While Jack and Reggie watch from a distance, Luther comes back to the Parking Garage where Reggie's car has been for the past two and a half years to collect it. The attendant sort of lampshades this trope when, after Luther asks how the oil and battery in the car are, he sarcastically responds that they take care of that every year.note But nothing about the gas Not only does the car function, Luther is able to start it right up. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "The Rip Van Winkle Caper". Four men enter suspended animation in a cave after a gold robbery and sleep for 100 years. When they wake up, their car starts up and can be driven with no problem.note Yet only the skeleton is left of one thief whose case was broken open by a rock. | |
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Death Lands hand waves (partially) with the fact that one of the pieces of Lost Technology that is lying around is a mixture of gasoline that is superior to regular petrol, taking much longer to burn (a regular tankful goes around five times longer) and has a different chemical mixture (which probably includes some kind of preservation agent). However 1) the series happens a hundred-plus years After the End (which should make even the best petrol preservative be on its last legs realistically) and 2) oftentimes the cars or generators that appear use scavenged fuel from regular pumps. | |
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In Episode 5 of The Walking Dead Season 2, Kenny suggests to Clementine and Molly to siphon gas from the abandoned vehicles, even though they should be unusable. Episode 1 of Season 3 has Javier's party scavenging cars for gas years after that. | |
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Jour J: Zigzagged in "Texan Apocalypse", set in the ruins of the US after the Cold War went nuclear: the antagonists are trying to break into a still-functioning nuclear launch silo to destroy the other factions of the Divided States of America, but it turns out to be All for Nothing: the missiles couldn't have launched in the first place, not because the fuel decomposed but because the bases's inhabitants have been siphoning it to power the base for years. | |
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Far Cry: New Dawn subverts this trope; background material specifically mentions that most if not all stored gasoline has deteriorated well past usable condition in the 17 years after the Collapse; as a result, combustion engines in the post-apocalypse Hope County run on what is implied to be ethanol-based fuel, to the point that even murderous raider gangs will carefully and meticulously keep a sizable storage of vegetables for processing into fuel — which they typically steal from the locals. Many of those who were alive before the Collapse will even wistfully comment how the converted ethanol-based engines "just don't have the same sound" as the old gasoline engines. | |
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Fallout 4 has cans of gasoline still usable as crafting materials for the "oil" category going on two centuries After the End. This is in spite of the Fallout setting being Post-Peak Oil and suffering a major energy crisis by the time of the Great War (and the fact that "oil" seems to be a lubricant rather than a fuel in many applications, when gasoline doesn't make much of a lubricant). | |
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Confirmed, then averted in The Walking Dead. The first couple of years, they have no problems, with almost any car they come across starting right up. After a time jump to about ten years after the apocalypse, they're back to horses. | |
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The Last Man on Earth takes place two years after a virus wipes out most life on Earth, yet the main characters are shown driving cars constantly. There is at least one mention of how long gasoline can last, but it never becomes a serious problem. | |
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I, Robot: Detective Spooner keeps a 2004 MV Agusta F4-SPR 750 crotch rocket in a storage unit, which he and Dr. Calvin use to get around during the robot uprising (his unmarked car was totaled earlier in the film). He's established as a Fan of the Past and has apparently kept it maintained, but where he gets the fuel from is a question mark: Dr. Calvin is fearful of the bike since it's gas-fueled — she notes gasoline's tendency to explode — strongly implying that it's no longer commonly available in the film's 2035. | |
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Sleeper: Miles and Luna find a Volkswagen Beetle that has been in storage for 200 years. It starts right up and they drive it for a considerable distance with no problems. Miles lampshades with "They really built these things didn't they?" | |
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In the third season of Lost, a few of the survivors find an old Volkswagen van that crashed and was abandoned deep in the island's jungle and is as decrepit as you would expect it to be. A whole episode is spent trying to make it roll (and it eventually does, even becoming a Chekhov's Gun for the season finale) but the main concern of the characters seems to be the battery, not the fact that it's been lying in a jungle for so many years (roughly since The '70s, when Benjanin Linus made it crash by killing his abusive father) that the gas must have long since gone bad. Probably another of the mysteries of the Island — just like the beer that was inside the van for the same amount of time yet is still fit to drink. | |
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Mad Max averts this in The Road Warrior and Fury Road, which both feature groups based around still-operational oil wells and refineries. But in Beyond Thunderdome, Jedediah has somehow found aviation gasoline for his plane despite the only fuel being produced being methane. | |
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In the Kim Possible fic "Alone, Together", Kim and Shego are accidentally stranded in an alternate universe just like the real world but with no other people. They live there for two decades before finding a way to get back home, scavenging fuel supplies for power and transportation the entire time. | |
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Five Graves to Cairo is set in 1942. Rommel tells Bramble that the Germans hid supplies in Egypt way back in 1937 while pretending to mount an archaeological expedition. The food and spare parts might still be good, but five years is way too long to store gasoline even under the best conditions. Gasoline will break down in two years, tops. | |
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Averted in Back to the Future Part III. As Marty is preparing to travel to 1885, the 1955 Doc tells him "I put gas in the tank...", establishing that when Doc was stranded in 1885, he drained the DeLorean's fluids before hiding it in the Delgado mine for them to find, and also explaining why, after Marty accidentally tears the fuel line in 1885, they don't try to go to the now-buried DeLorean to get gas. | |
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In the final act of Red Notice, the protagonists find a Nazi treasure cache in South America, which includes several cars. Then their enemies find them, and they end up getting in a Car Chase with those antique cars. Despite the fact that all the cars have been sitting underground without maintenance or fresh fuel for at least seventy years, they all start and run perfectly. | |
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In Regular Show episode "The Night Owl", a vintage muscle car is put up as the prize in a Radio Contest. Two thousand years later, it starts up without a hitch when the gang need to use it to escape from the authorities. | |
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I Am Legend: Neville, the last human in the abandoned New York City, fuels his car by manually pumping out gasoline from abandoned gas stations. Like everything else in the city, these gas stations have been untouched for three years, with their last recorded price being 6 dollars a gallon! | |
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In Ashes 2063, 70-something years after the apocalypse, any gas you find is still perfectly usable, though it is difficult to find and/or produce. Dialogue with NPCs clarifies that most internal combustion engines were re-tooled to work with plant-based biofuel,note that from the description of the process, is ethanol which is much easier to make and every settlement has a decent stockpile of. | |
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Doomsday has Sinclair's group escape south through Scotland in a Bentley that has been stashed in an underground bunker for 27 years. They refuel it from sealed drums, but neither gasoline nor the ethanol blends some Bentleys can run on would be usable after that long. | |
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In The Stand, characters keep driving cars many months — in the extended edition, a whole year — after The Plague wipes out 99 percent of humanity. | |
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Doesn't apply to Zombieland, which is set a mere two months after the zombie-induced breakdown of civilization, but it does apply to the sequel, which skips five years ahead. | |
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Dimension W takes place in a future where free energy has been realized so there's not an energy crisis, but protagonist Mabuchi Kyoma refuses to use the coils that contemporary energy is grounded in for his own reasons. Part of his Establishing Character Moment is to take a job on the promise that he would be paid in half in cash and half in gasoline, the latter for his car, practically the only one of its kind left. | |
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The Last Chase centers around a retired race car driver in a world where the oil wells dried up twenty years previously building a sports car in his garage and driving it the length of the continental US. That's a three thousand mile trip, requiring at least a hundred gallons of gas (likely a lot more given that he's driving a sports car rather than something fuel efficient), and nowhere does the film explain how he managed to find that much usable gas more than a decade after all the gas stations were shut down. Even if he could pump the dregs from abandoned stations, it wouldn't be of good quality, and the Porsche he was driving requires high octane fuel. | |
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The Book of Eli. It's been thirty years since a nuclear war that wiped out civilization, yet vehicles are still running on gasoline from before the apocalypse. | |
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In Star Trek Beyond, Kirk finds a fictional Hilts PX70 dirt bike in the cargo bay of the crashed USS Franklin, and soon rides it to the rescue of his crew. The motorcycle is at least a hundred years old. | |
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Into the Badlands uses averting this as a plot point. The Widow's power as a baron, and her husband's before her, comes from her control of the only operational oil field and refinery in the post-apocalyptic future (although some of the other factions are mysteriously able to get fuel from elsewhere). | |
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The Last Train has a group of people who were cryogenically frozen during the Apocalypse wake up after decades have passed, then go out and find a Mercedes Sprinter Van which starts up and runs just fine pretty much on the first turn of the key; after being refueled with a barrel of gasoline that has been sitting there for the same amount of time and having the battery recharged with a gas-powered generator. Lampshaded with dialogue that also doubles as a bit of Product Placement. | |
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Ravage 2099 issue 1 has the titular hero discover a 100 year old garbage truck in a junkyard and decide to take it as his new vehicle. Despite having spent decades sitting out in the open, exposed to the elements with no protection of any kind, the engine starts up immediately. Good thing for Ravage, too, since cars don't even run on gasoline in 2099 so there aren't even any fuel stations he could fill his tank at. | |
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Averted in Stake Land, which is only a few months after the vampire apocalypse starts. But happens in the second movie when Martin finds a motorcycle that is in working order and fueled up despite having been hidden in a barn for many years. | |
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Subverted in GURPS After the End, in which gasoline is no longer useful. Instead, rules are given for converting vehicles to use ethanol, biodiesel, or gasifiers. | |
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Horizon Zero Dawn averts this for the most part, as the machines continue to refine Blaze for fuel. But the Corruptors and Deathbringers have no excuse as they're resurrected remnants of the original Faro swarm that wiped out all life 1000 years ago and their fuel should have long been rendered useless. | |
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Battlefield Earth: Jet fighters still work after a millennium without service, including apparently the fuel. Being less volatile than gasoline, jet fuel really does have a much longer shelf-life than gasoline, but even that's only a few decades. | |
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In Rats: Night of Terror, the gang finds a working flamethrower and several working motorcycles in the city, despite it being more than 200 years since any of those things have seen any use. | |
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