Transcription: Meme with mad max-type cars facing the viewer with the caption: “It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of car culture”

  • astutemural@midwest.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Hmmm, interesting. Looks like there’s some fuel stabilizers that can preserve it for a few years (most of what I can find are for 1-3 years). I’m guessing the 5-year blend has a shorter shelf life once opened? The really interesting part seems to be that some of these stabilizers can be added to old gasoline to make it usable again. So as long as an organization had an utterly gigantic supply of stabilizer, they could potentially keep using gas for quite a while.

    These stabilizers are definitely not in regular gasoline, though, so everyone except the extremely paranoid would be SOL.

    • SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Stabilizers are marketing BS, they can’t rejuvenate old fuel and they generally work by introducing an additional component that reduces the ability of the fuel (mostly the methanol content) to absorb water … however they rarely have a positive effect over all because they cause other problems.

      Long shelf-life fuel is made in the refining stage. European standard E10 petrol can last a year or more if it’s stored correctly … I know this because I sometimes do store it for that long by accident.