Prii on the roadside? Is there a common problem?

Well, that sucks... you didn't stop to inquire, I take it?
Musta been those crazy hypermilers, trying to push their tanks...
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It's probably all the new 07 drivers that can't figure out when they need to re-fill with fuel!

I've gotten into many _heated_ arguments with my ex-fiance about simply calculating the average MPG times the number of gallons that were pumped at the last stop to indicate how many miles on a tank you can drive - all this after she ran mine out of gas on I-5 NB just south of Olympia, Wa. She still doesn't get it. Perhaps that's why there's an ex before fiance now...

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Aug 7 2007, 09:04 AM) [snapback]491783[/snapback]</div>

Good one! Hahahaha!

 

I know that the car has a guess-gauge in it but when it gets down to two pips, I just fill it up. No calculations no running out of gas. Why do people feel they have to ring every last drop out of the tank to figure out the gas mileage. That's what a paper and pencil (how retro) or a calculator are for, write the mileage when you fill up, drive around until the tank's almost empty refill the tank note the mileage. Do a little subtraction for miles driven divide it into the gallons of gas. Whoa! that was really tough.

 

On the LA freeways, I see 30 to 40 Pri every day. Never seen one parked along the road, or on a tow truck. I see everything else, but no Pri, so far. Must be a local thing, Or mileage obsessed idiots trying to stretch that last blinking pip.

 

Or, "the battery display went down to two purple bars so I immediately pulled over!!".

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(FBear @ Aug 8 2007, 03:44 AM) [snapback]491911[/snapback]</div>

As I was reading this thread, I could not understand people leaving the fill up until the last moment. I have always worked on the basis of filling up (on any car) when the gauge got close to a 1/4 full. For country driving here in Australia, it was more of fill up as soon as the gauge got below 1/2 - you never know how far the next gas station may be.

I still have the fun of filling up only half as often as before, but never fear running out of gas.

 

Maybe it was only one car problem plus two good samaritans?

 

We ended up on the side of the road between Las Vegas and Los Angeles.. I felt a little embarrassed to let down my prius that way. We thought we could make the trip to Vegas and halfway back before refueling. Silly.

The horrible thing was that we were about 3/4's a mile away from a gas station but didn't know it and I panicked when my warning light came on and I thought my battery was being damaged.

After a 70$ gallon of gas.. we went to the gas station, refueled, and went home. If we didn't drive around in Vegas so much, we would have been fine!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(AussieOwner @ Aug 7 2007, 11:45 PM) [snapback]492217[/snapback]</div>

Because most people live in a metropolis and have access to umpteen dozen gas stations, so there's really no worry about going too low. It's also a machismo thing - how many miles can I get out of this tank.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(AussieOwner @ Aug 7 2007, 11:45 PM) [snapback]492217[/snapback]</div>

Thoughts of Mad Max come to mind here... Again, most people live in a metropolis so there are filling stations around.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(AussieOwner @ Aug 7 2007, 11:45 PM) [snapback]492217[/snapback]</div>

But it's about saying... "I got 600 miles (965.61) from my tank of gas..."

 

I flog the little darling within an inch of her life sometimes; she's uttered not so much as a whimper.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Pinto Girl @ Aug 8 2007, 02:33 PM) [snapback]492538[/snapback]</div>

Your dates must be amazing. I mean, you're flogging your car - I'd really like to know what you do to your date! :mellow:

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(F8L @ Aug 6 2007, 07:53 PM) [snapback]491576[/snapback]</div>

Perhaps the car can go further than the passengers. In Ohio it is a long way between rest stops.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(oly_57mpg @ Aug 8 2007, 11:29 AM) [snapback]492535[/snapback]</div>

Living in earthquake country (albeit in major denial most of the time), I try not to drop too far below 1/2 a tank in case I need to book it out of here and there is NO gas available (remember the Katrina gsa station lines???). call me paranoid, but I really can't see the Feds rushing to rescue the crazy liberal Prius-driving queers in SF after the "big one" hits . . .

Dafna

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(sfdafna @ Aug 9 2007, 06:38 PM) [snapback]493344[/snapback]</div>

No Paranoia about it. After the Enron rape of CA and junior's lack of response in assisting us get our money back because we did not vote him in, you can count on only one thing: There will be no help in the event of the big one. You think the lack of response to Katrina victims was/is still lacking? Nothing compared to what CA can expect. And to think CA gets, what, only about .75 on the dollar back from our contributions to the federal budget compared to that bastion of the GOP, New Mexico who gets back about $1.25.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MarinJohn @ Aug 10 2007, 12:02 PM) [snapback]493551[/snapback]</div>

CA (and NJ) need better senators and congressmen. As FEMA so aptly demonstrated, if you are expecting them to help, you are SOL.