fuck cars
fuck cars
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"
IIRC, the first Mad Max was partly imagined as a satire of car culture in Australia
Interesting! Got a source on that?
I remember seeing in an interview of Director George Miller. But! I may have another source: https://gizmodo.com/stories-from-the-sets-of-mad-max-the-road-warrior-1702490722
Needs a sequel where they’re defeated by a cooperative riding war bikes
What I love about the whole Mad Max post apocalyptic wasteland is that ...... everyone has enough fuel to go wandering around the desert. A raiding party of a dozen transports, riding with a bunch of small cars and motorcycles would probably consume several hundred gallons of fuel in one afternoon.
It would probably take a year before all available fuel would be depleted and then there would be nothing to replenish it all. Sure you can use alcohol but that is in even smaller supply and most of it would have been consumed by people anyway.
We'll be able to build, fix, and maintain gas powered engines after the apocalypse but we won't have any fuel to keep them running.
The newer movies expand the wasteland to three "fortresses" that factions fight for control: the citadel has a fresh water reservoir and food, the bullet farm was a mining town turned into an arms factory, and gastown controls an oil refinery that everyone depends on (and slaves to keep it working). Lore wise, gasoline is one of the commodities they've continued creating and exporting.
Unless gastown is sitting on one giant underground oil reservoir that they actively pump themselves .... gastown will run out of fuel as fast as everyone else.
Bullet farm also needs to keep importing or manufacturing specialized chemicals and compounds to make the explosives for bullets.
The only town that could actually exist is the citadel. Any place that has a supply of fresh clean water will always draw human habitation, even without guns, fuel, big trucks or motorcycles.
Wouldn't even be a year. Gasoline has a shelf life of six months. Three months if it's an ethanol blend.
After that, you're down to homemade diesel, electric vehicles, and bicycles.
In Germany during WWII they were able to keep cars running using wood gas, where they'd burn wood and vent the off-gassing into the car's engine. This would be realistic for the Mad Max universe but it wouldn't be very cool for all the Apocalypticars to be towing wood stove trailers - and I don't remember ever seeing a tree in a Mad Max movie.
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Np, done 👍
gotta train that AI somehow :D (/s)
TBF public transport is kinda lacking in the apocalypse
Wdym I take Immortan line to gastown every week
I mean, that is one glaring point of fridge logic. If you've seen how many people can cram onto a bus in developing countries, Immortan Joe's guys should have been like 15 to a car. Also, if gas is precious, why not use a train? They're substantially more efficient.
It's realistic that the most vicious people would hold on to the status symbols of before, and to indoctrinate those born after into the same way of thinking
In most cataclismic sci-fi cars seem to be of little or no importance, which makes sense given that most countries have no oil themselves and even for those which do, the ability of actually extracting the stuff from the current hard to reach modern reserves (the stuff doesn't just boil out of the ground nowadays) and refining it isn't likely to be available at all for what's left of society.
Curiously, electric cars and solar panels make post-catacysmic use of cars more likely than the ICE engine of the cars in Mad Max.
That said, given enough time whatever stock of solar panels use will be gone to just natural degradation and exposure to the elements and the technology to do more won't be there anymore (though wind and water generation would still be possible), plus the roads themselves will become unusable as Nature does its thing.
The most likely Mad-Max post-cataclismic future will be using animal-drawn vehicles or just people riding the animals.
Counterpoint, Imagine a dystopia belonging to transit ….. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6156584/plotsummary/
Lol where would they even get the fuel
Gas Town of course
They tend to go hand-in-hand
Mad max movies are the only reasonable use for cars.
Fury Road on every street in every city throughout the world!