This should be more my usual type of post. Did you hear the James Bond theme when you read the title? Did you think I was going to talk about the Pit Maneuver (Which I could do) or the Bootlegger Maneuver (Only in my dreams could I do) or how to crash through a car barricade? I know how to do that properly...but the reality is not that I will "crash the gate doing 98. Let them truckers roll, 10-4". That means, I might be able to get a half kilometre down the road before the engine seizes if I didn't flip from trying to keep a twisted frame and broken axil moving forward. Good bye vehicle forever. Dukes of Hazard went through a lot of vehicles. You are not the US military that can keep affording to buy new ones...and people.

C5 Rule of Survival- Take all of the Survival advice you get from Special Forces, "Experts", Spies, Rough Necks, Nascar Drivers, The UFC, Batman, Adrenalin Sports enthusiasts and all things Fetishisticly Macho Man (cue the Village People)....and, basically,.... DO THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE ...and you will do just fine.

Instead, emulate that really anointing Old Guy that pisses you off and backs up traffic.

Everyone fetishizes over the ULTIMATE BOV. Is it EMP proof? Is it four wheel drive? We Wank excessively over that stuff. The real question is....can we afford it...and far more important...can we afford to keep it moving and for how long....If we no longer have a job, or bankrupt...or most important, The gas pumps aren't pumping.

Near the Top of the list of survival supplies is properly rotated gas...and even that is not going to last long. A lot of AHole trucks ( once again, cue the Village People. Nice Mustache, Dude) will make fantastic raised bed gardens with a built in mini green house. Not much other use once reality kicks in. Every time the gas price raises, or the local job factory shuts down, they are for sale on the side of the highway on mass.

So, onto the technique.

Slow the F down.....really! Are you short on gas and don't know where your next tank will come from. Simply, DONT GO ABOVE 80kms. Avoid highways. Its an issue of diminishing returns. (they peak out of efficiency at that point) You can, quite literally, get ONE THIRD the extra distance from going 80 instead of 110- 120. If you are in a bind, remember that. My motorcycle has a small tank so I know all about this. I keep getting stuck out in the middle of nowhere not knowing how to get to the next gas station. At times like that, I ride the side and slow down to under 80. Think that is stupid? ( inspite of being embarrassing) One of my close friends almost froze in one of our latest climate disasters and almost never made it home to safety and his own gas supplies....because several big towns he passed through had power outages from the storm and he was running on fumes. He went a half hour in the complete opposite direction hoping he could make it to one city that might have power. He was lucky that time. He passed a lot od dark gas stations with long lineups of stranded cars...and the ones that were still with power...were EMPTY from desperate drivers.
When he made it home, his locals were also empty.

So, The lesson. When the SHTF...conserver what little energy you have. The regular rules don't apply. Slow down to less than 80. Try not to come to a full stop, losing your forward momentum. Accelerate slowly from a stop, not pushing the gas petal past where it is actually burning fully in the carburetor. Relax and you will get there safer. Speed doesn't buy you more than a few minutes, with far greater chance of a crash . How do I know this? I learned it in professional truck driving school...before 15 years of professional driving. From a full stop, to 60kmh uses an entire cup of fuel in a big truck. Think of that on a smaller scale each time you rev your car trying to be Vin Diesel or James Bond in a crisis...especially if you don't know where your next fuel will come from. Your fuel gage is ticking down.

Instead, be the really annoying old guy that never goes above 80. He is the real survival expert. THATS WHY HE IS OLD. 😉