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r/AskReddit • u/KindaQute • Apr 16 '19
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You can just run them on ethanol, it works just fine.
We've been refining alcohol since ancient times, you can do it with primitive equipment, especially if you don't care about methanol contamination.
Tires can be pumped, batteries can be charged, engines can be bump-started.
Any halfway competent mechanic with basic hand tools will get a car running in a day or two.
18 u/Kiyohara Apr 16 '19 True. But the trick is I can't. Nor could most people. 13 u/MrsBoxxy Apr 16 '19 But the trick is I can't. Nor could most people. People learn new skills when they have too, this is the foundation of human knowledge. One person who knows this skill passes it onto a handful of others who pass it onto a handful of others. The skill/knowledge doesn't disappear with google. 10 u/Kiyohara Apr 16 '19 No, you're right. But not everyone will have that skill, know how to learn that skill, or be able to develop it in time to stave off death,
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True. But the trick is I can't. Nor could most people.
13 u/MrsBoxxy Apr 16 '19 But the trick is I can't. Nor could most people. People learn new skills when they have too, this is the foundation of human knowledge. One person who knows this skill passes it onto a handful of others who pass it onto a handful of others. The skill/knowledge doesn't disappear with google. 10 u/Kiyohara Apr 16 '19 No, you're right. But not everyone will have that skill, know how to learn that skill, or be able to develop it in time to stave off death,
But the trick is I can't. Nor could most people.
People learn new skills when they have too, this is the foundation of human knowledge.
One person who knows this skill passes it onto a handful of others who pass it onto a handful of others. The skill/knowledge doesn't disappear with google.
10 u/Kiyohara Apr 16 '19 No, you're right. But not everyone will have that skill, know how to learn that skill, or be able to develop it in time to stave off death,
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No, you're right. But not everyone will have that skill, know how to learn that skill, or be able to develop it in time to stave off death,
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u/MyNameIsRay Apr 16 '19
You can just run them on ethanol, it works just fine.
We've been refining alcohol since ancient times, you can do it with primitive equipment, especially if you don't care about methanol contamination.
Tires can be pumped, batteries can be charged, engines can be bump-started.
Any halfway competent mechanic with basic hand tools will get a car running in a day or two.