Post-war energy

Since the great war that engulfed the planet in nuclear fire, those who survived had to resort to new and desperate ways to acquire energy for the longest time, fuel production halting for decades after the war and power grids being completely annihilated, many post-war communities and nomads have now relied on practices such as car harvesting, thermite scavenging, and wood burning, the most prevalent of which for energy in post-war America being car harvesting.
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==Background==
===Car harvesting===
Car harvesting is the most common and easy way of acquiring fuel in post-war America in urban areas, with these large cities being filled with hundreds of thousands of cars, many wastelanders who have needed either heat or power search for cars in the streets or in parking lots or in garages and proceed to strip the car of its tires and empty the fuel tank of any remaining gasoline or diesel, with the mass majority of car tires being made out of synthetic rubber synthesized from crude oil, the tires make to be excellent fuel sources that can be transported relatively easily and highly abundant, this practice has been capitalized on so much that entire caravans had been formed specifically for the harvest of cars. 
In areas like California many of these caravans have been monopolized by massive factions such as EO, using their highly organized and massive military force to enforce the dominance of EO ran caravans in many high density urban areas, the military being able to hastily harvest a massive amount of cars in a much shorter period of time due to the resources they have over other local caravans, and shipping most of the fuel directly to large EO controlled settlements. 
A large portion of car harvested fuel is centered around into New Joaquin-Stockton, one of EO's largest trade ports due to its centering around the San Joaquin River, allowing EO to ship fuel from this port directly to major population centers like New Francisco or to military fronts like the Angeles Frontier, though since EO's energy project in 2003, EO has turned their efforts away from car harvesting and instead most of their power had been produced by newly refurbished solar power plants and the hydroelectric dam that had been refurbished in 2005, though across America car harvesting still remains a reliable way to acquire fuel for many wastelanders and factions.
===Thermite scavenging===
Thermite scavenging is a less commonly used way of acquiring fuel in the post-war world, with scavengers searching grocery stores or convenience stores for aluminum foil, and then searching for the overabundant amount of rusted iron in the wasteland and scraping the rust off of it, then grinding the aluminum into a fine powder before mixing it with the iron oxide to create thermite, this being a relatively slow and ineffective form of post-war energy though it is one that is always available due to how common the resources needed are to do so.
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