# Ability to draw off gasoline from vehicles

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373>\
**Category:** The Drawing Board\
**Created:** [May 22, 2013, 7:29am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373 "2013-05-22T07:29:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![paulcrawls](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/977dab/32.png) [@paulcrawls](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/paulcrawls)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 7:29am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373/1 "2013-05-22T07:29:27Z")

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That being said, with a plastic pipe and container.  
In a long term apocalypse almost all cars would have been drawn off, because fuel is vital.

What’s more: perhaps we can craft our own makeshift fuel by mixing alcohol and oil.

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**Author:** ![i2amroy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/i2amroy/32/909_2.png) [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 7:31am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373/2 "2013-05-22T07:31:43Z")

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It’s already in. As of the current dev build (or I believe the latest nightly builds as well) you can siphon gasoline from a car with a rubber hose.

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**Author:** ![Reaper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/reaper/32/74_2.png) [@Reaper](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Reaper)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 9:59am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373/3 "2013-05-22T09:59:26Z")

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> you can siphon gasoline from a car with a rubber hose.

Thanks, guys:)

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**Author:** ![vultures](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/vultures/32/69_2.png) [@vultures](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/vultures)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373/4 "2013-05-22T16:36:49Z")

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A quick one:  
If you remove a half-full fuel tank from a vehicle, where does the gasoline go?  
Just a simple query needed. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Vorpal2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Vorpal2](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Vorpal2)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 6:08pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373/5 "2013-05-22T18:08:55Z")

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[quote=“vultures, post:4, topic:1373”]A quick one:  
If you remove a half-full fuel tank from a vehicle, where does the gasoline go?  
Just a simple query needed. :)[/quote]

It shifts along it’s 5th dimensional axis into a sub-prime plane.

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**Author:** ![iceball3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c89c15/32.png) [@iceball3](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/iceball3)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373/6 "2013-05-22T18:53:47Z")

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Idea: Make metal tanks as large container items that count as filled with as much fluid as it has when installed. Make it so that they’re filled with gasoline that is left from vehicle when you remove it.

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**Author:** ![vache](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ea666f/32.png) [@vache](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/vache)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373/7 "2013-05-22T20:28:39Z")

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Yes lets start WELDING a FULL tank of GASOLINE! Great idea!

(Although that’s only if you want to install it. Removing it would probably still be scary though)

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**Author:** ![vultures](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/vultures/32/69_2.png) [@vultures](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/vultures)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 8:37pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373/8 "2013-05-22T20:37:29Z")

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It’s that the gasoline eventually welds YOU! 😃

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**Author:** ![Soron](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/soron/32/885_2.png) [@Soron](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Soron)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 9:13pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373/9 "2013-05-22T21:13:24Z")

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I just checked with someone who knows her explosives, and… nope, NOT gonna let you guys install full gasoline tanks. Welder + gasoline fumes = boom.

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**Author:** ![vultures](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/vultures/32/69_2.png) [@vultures](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/vultures)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 9:27pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373/10 "2013-05-22T21:27:00Z")

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^^  
It was more like - bring the query for slurp-up at the rem(o)ve line for those tanks.

Me & my jerrycan FTW. 🙂

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**Author:** ![GlyphGryph](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/glyphgryph/32/847_2.png) [@GlyphGryph](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/GlyphGryph)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373/11 "2013-05-22T21:35:32Z")

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> [@Soron](#):
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> I just checked with someone who knows her explosives, and… nope, NOT gonna let you guys install full gasoline tanks. Welder + gasoline fumes = boom.

I don’t see why this is a reason not to let them try.

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**Author:** ![vache](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ea666f/32.png) [@vache](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/vache)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 9:39pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373/12 "2013-05-22T21:39:16Z")

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Though that logic should be applied to a lot of things…

You fill your tin can up with gasoline.  
Your tin can of gasoline has spilled in your backpack. Your backpack is now soaked in gasoline!  
You light a cigarette.  
You explode.

Although… you wouldn’t necessarily know your tin can has spilled at first…

You fill your tin can up with gasoline.  
Your back feels wet. You smell gasoline.  
You light a cigarette.  
You explode.

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**Author:** ![vultures](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/vultures/32/69_2.png) [@vultures](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/vultures)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 9:44pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373/13 "2013-05-22T21:44:44Z")

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You can’t weld a none. You can weld a gasoline. 🙂

- you get a free Smoker Zombie screensaver for Android.

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**Author:** ![Morrigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Morrigi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Morrigi)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 2:32am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373/14 "2013-05-23T02:32:04Z")

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[quote=“vache, post:12, topic:1373”]Though that logic should be applied to a lot of things…

You fill your tin can up with gasoline.  
Your tin can of gasoline has spilled in your backpack. Your backpack is now soaked in gasoline!  
You light a cigarette.  
You explode.

Although… you wouldn’t necessarily know your tin can has spilled at first…

You fill your tin can up with gasoline.  
Your back feels wet. You smell gasoline.  
You light a cigarette.  
You explode.[/quote]  
To be fair, you wouldn’t EXPLODE. Die in a fiery inferno, probably.

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**Author:** ![Weyrling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7bcc69/32.png) [@Weyrling](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Weyrling)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 3:04am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373/15 "2013-05-23T03:04:53Z")

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[quote=“Morrigi, post:14, topic:1373”][quote=“vache, post:12, topic:1373”]Though that logic should be applied to a lot of things…

You fill your tin can up with gasoline.  
Your tin can of gasoline has spilled in your backpack. Your backpack is now soaked in gasoline!  
You light a cigarette.  
You explode.

Although… you wouldn’t necessarily know your tin can has spilled at first…

You fill your tin can up with gasoline.  
Your back feels wet. You smell gasoline.  
You light a cigarette.  
You explode.[/quote]  
To be fair, you wouldn’t EXPLODE. Die in a fiery inferno, probably.[/quote]  
Considering my average inventory… I’m betting there would be more explosion than inferno, but the dozens of molotovs would make a nice inferno too. Also, nuclear fireworks comes to mind.

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**Author:** ![drake1storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/54ee81/32.png) [@drake1storm](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/drake1storm)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 3:13am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373/16 "2013-05-23T03:13:05Z")

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It isn’t a big enough explosion unless you can see it from orbit.

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**Author:** ![vultures](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/vultures/32/69_2.png) [@vultures](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/vultures)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 3:15am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373/17 "2013-05-23T03:15:26Z")

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There it is… you can f\*\*k up the Earth, but you can’t mess up one’s ability to weld a none. 😃

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**Author:** ![Justice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Justice](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Justice)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373/18 "2013-05-23T04:19:58Z")

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> [@GlyphGryph](#):
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> [quote=“Soron, post:9, topic:1373”]I just checked with someone who knows her explosives, and… nope, NOT gonna let you guys install full gasoline tanks. Welder + gasoline fumes = boom.

I don’t see why this is a reason not to let them try.[/quote]

I definitely want to see this added. I imagine it would look something like my face the first time my character lit a ‘small, simple’ fire in his house.

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**Author:** ![Nopkar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@Nopkar](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Nopkar)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 5:37am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373/19 "2013-05-23T05:37:04Z")

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‘you begin welding the gas tank to th-’

game over

new character-\> returns to last survivors location to find a large scorch mark and a twisted wreck of metal.

I say do it.

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**Author:** ![KA101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/278dde/32.png) [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 10:54pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/ability-to-draw-off-gasoline-from-vehicles/1373/20 "2013-05-23T22:54:22Z")

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Can I please safely repair the gas tank without purging it first, at least? Last night’s motorcycle-retrieval op was involved enough getting them out of town and to a safe® location, without having to futz around with hoses & extra storage.