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According to the independent feature film BLOOD CAR, the gas is obviously the blood since the movie is about a car that runs on blood.

I would say that all the piping delivering fuel and oil would be the blood. Blood is just a tissue that transports oxygen and nutrients (air/fuel) to the rest of the body. The moment the air hits a fuel rich environment is where lungs and blood meet. Hard to make an exact analogy since humans use a tissue(blood) to transport fuel and oxygen within vessels. No such tissue needed in an engine.

Gas is consumed and partially expelled in normal operation similar to food. Oil is, ideally, not consumed in use but is changed occasionally, similar to blood. Finding one where the other should be in both cases is a problem.

I’m not sure that anthropomorphic metaphor makes any sense I would’ve said the blood of a car is it engine

As someone who loves medicine and cars…. I can rule out gasoline. It feeds the car, like food. Oil only lubricates. Coolant only cools the car so it doesn’t overheat. I would say it’s a combination of coolant, oil, and blinker fluid

hard analogy to make. biological systems are so different than mechanical.

the life blood of my car is my paycheck tho.

Blinker fluid

Oil is definitely the lifeblood of the engine, since most engines will seize pretty quickly in the absence of oil or if the oil level gets too low. If a car runs out of gas, it’ll just sputter and stall, but the motor usually won’t have permanent damage from it and will start right back up after you put gas in.

Oil is blood, fuel is food.

I would say there’s three lifebloods to a car oil lubricates all the various metal bits of your engine gas keeps your car running and coolant keeps it cool. You’re only about 18 degrees away from a mechanical emergency

Oil for sure, although that’s not really the same hey. It’s not like we can just turn our bodies off.

I guess that means my BMW is just bleeding all the time in my driveway, damn.

Fuck it. Too much debate. The blood is the bumper

I’d say oil is like blood while gas is like food.

Neither’s either ofc (any analogy breaks down at some point), but gasoline gets physically ingested, chemically digested to harvest some energy, and then what remains after digestion is ejected as waste. That sounds somewhat similar to we do with food, IMO.

Oil remains permanently in the “body,” forever circulated by a pump without ever leaving (and if it does leave, then a little bit of loss is survivable, but a lot can be fatal), which sounds a lot like blood IMO.

Oil isn’t really circulating anything like blood does (maybe heat, with heat exchangers being like lungs, but that’s a stretch IMO), but that’s about all I’ve got.

IMO, oil=blood and gasoline = food.

my buddy says Oil.