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Originally Posted by John in Santa Cruz
careful, there are some long legs with no gas on either of those routes... like, Battle Mountain to Tonopah is 200 miles. If your tug is like my F250 longbed, and carries 38 gallons of diesel and can go 500 miles+ per tank, awesome, but when I towed my Escape with a Tacoma, I was looking for gas at 150 miles and on fumes by 200, and that was steady flatland cruising on I40.
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We have a 36 gallon tank, and know to fill frequently when in low population density areas. Been doing that for decades.
Ran out of gas in the 70's on the Rosebud Reservation when I wasn't watching the gas with my 64 VW Karmann Ghia convertible. One of the members siphoned gas from a newly abandoned car. He got a mouthfull of gas to start the gas flowing to my KG. That's the last time I ran out.
When I was 16, with a friend that ran out of gas, our HS math teacher picked us up and brought us to and from the nearby gas station. He told us, "It's just as easy to keep the top half full as the bottom." Obviously I remembered that adage to this day, except a few years later on the Rosebud Reservation.
Enjoy,
Perry
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