There are two kinds of people...

[MOXJO7282]

I fill up ours on the weekend when we get an extra .06 off at the already cheapest gas station so sometimes we're low and other times we have more. With the 4 cars I save about $6 a week doing this. it all adds up.

 

[DebBrown]

Did you know the miles to empty on a Toyota Highlander says "1 miles" instead of "mile"? My DH won't let his go below 1/4.

 

[Kel]

LOL. A 1/2 tank is an empty tank.

 

[DrQ]

When my car drops under 40 miles of range, it starts suggesting gas stations as POI's.

 

[Beachclubmum]

This is so true!
I see it as a challenge.
My PR fillip is 19.92 gallons in a 20 gallon tank.
Drives my husband insane.

Coward. My PR is 20 gallons in a 19 gallon tank.

 

[Shankilicious]

Coward. My PR is 20 gallons in a 19 gallon tank.

My 16 Ford Escape and 17 Ford Explorer both have a 15 gallon tank and give the warning at 50miles to E.
The explorer actually turns the light on at 1/4tank.....

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[Jan M.]

Neither my husband nor I have a fixation on getting gas if the tank gets down to half. If we are driving some distance we start paying attention to where the next stop is and what prices are when we get down to a third of a tank. When the needle gets to just under a quarter we aren't worried yet but we aren't pushing it to go a little further if we see a place to stop. Like other people posted we now have a car that tells us how many miles we have left in the tank and a Garmin that tells us where the next gas station is. The one thing I really dislike that it took my husband literally decades to finally stop doing is to come home with a low tank. He covered a large territory so was easily filling up several times a week. Almost every time we went anywhere together we would invariably have to stop for gas first. I'm an if it needs done do it now not later person about things like that.

Now about the other ways we differ. He drinks coffee, likes instant pudding, black jelly beans and circus peanuts. I don't drink coffee and never have; tea is my thing. I love cooked pudding; particularly the skin on the top which he thinks is disgusting. I think I could eat black jelly beans and circus peanuts if I was in danger of actual starvation but I even under those circumstances I can't imagine being grateful for them.

 

[rhonda]

LOL. I fill at half-tank ... my DH is perfectly comfortable with the yellow light glaring at him for 30 miles. Gladly, he installed ScanGauge units in both of our trucks. I was relying on it heavily this week while canvassing SoCal and AZ for livestock panels pulling a trailer in pouring rain, high winds, dust storms and all l-o-n-g stretches of 'nothing' between desert cities. Yeah for my ScanGauge!

 

[Glynda]

LOL. I fill at half-tank ... my DH is perfectly comfortable with the yellow light glaring at him for 30 miles. Gladly, he installed ScanGauge units in both of our trucks. I was relying on it heavily this week while canvassing SoCal and AZ for livestock panels pulling a trailer in pouring rain, high winds, dust storms and all l-o-n-g stretches of 'nothing' between desert cities. Yeah for my ScanGauge!

Learn something every day on TUG! Thanks for the Scan Gauge info. Never heard of it and will read the link.

 

[SandyPGravel]

That holds true with us. There are two kinds of people. Those like me who have to be on time and those like my wife that have never arrived on time in her life.

If we have to be somewhere at 2:00, that means my husband starts getting ready at 2:00

These statements are spot on to describe my DH. But, he is the one obsessed with filling up when the tank hits 1/4 full. I usually will not go below 1/8 myself, but I'm not as obsessive as he is. I guess that means he has a split personality or something...

 

[jme]

I am currently in the process of compiling a written list of my "lifetime sayings" (KIDS, roll your eyes!)
attributed to me only which I made up, to give to my children to remember and to someday share with their children.
There are about 40 so far.

Here is one from the list:
"There is only one excuse I will accept for NOT being on time, and that is....
if you're early."

(And of course a few will have a VERY brief supplemental comment as to their importance
and how they influenced my life.)

 

[OldGuy]

Have some of you considered marriage counseling?

 

[rapmarks]

Have some of you considered marriage counseling?

Been married 49 years,and spent half the time waiting for him. Too late now.

 

[clifffaith]

Been married 49 years,and spent half the time waiting for him. Too late now.

I had trouble getting Cliff out the door to be on time for clients. Frosted my behind that 15 minutes before it was time to play cards with our old neighbors (a 10 minute drive), he'd be all antsy and why don't I have my jacket on. Clients he let wait, but he can't be late for cards. SMH.

 

[geist1223]

There are two types of people: Those who p** in the Ocean and those that lie about it.

 

[isisdave]

Here in the land of earthquakes and forest fires, DW prefers to keep the family Escape Capsule above 1/2 tank, in case of sudden departure from a region without power.

Fortunately, since retirement, this means filling the tank twice a month instead of six times.

 

[b2bailey]

Sometimes we wonder what influences our preferences one way or another -- imagine this: married nearly 20 years to a man who was always early, and checked to be certain doors were locked in a nearly compulsive manner. However, after two surgeries on his brain he didn't care if we were late to church, and one morning woke up to our front door wide open. Otherwise he was fairly unaffected by it.

 

[jimf41]

I will never run out of gas, again. That applies to my car and my helicopter.

 

[DrQ]

Here in the land of earthquakes and forest fires, DW prefers to keep the family Escape Capsule above 1/2 tank, in case of sudden departure from a region without power.

Fortunately, since retirement, this means filling the tank twice a month instead of six times.

That's a good point which also applies to costal areas during hurricane season.

 

[DrQ]

I will never run out of gas, again. That applies to my car and my helicopter.

How many pounds of fuel are left in your car?

 

[geist1223]

We normally fill each vehicle when it reaches 1/2 of a tank. Part of our preparedness. Also each vehicle has 2 back packs ready to go. We live in Salem Oregon.

 

[bbodb1]

I had trouble getting Cliff out the door to be on time for clients. Frosted my behind that 15 minutes before it was time to play cards with our old neighbors (a 10 minute drive), he'd be all antsy and why don't I have my jacket on. Clients he let wait, but he can't be late for cards. SMH.

The man has his priorities right!

Faith, I am recalling your reaction to a salesman in a previous thread! Something about Go With God if I recall.....

 

[bbodb1]

Now back to the topic, I will let my Honda Fit go below the 0 miles indicator because I have a good feel for the number of miles I can go past that point despite all of the gas tank indication lights disappearing. It also helps that I drive a standard and in a pinch, I can massage some extra miles out of a tank when needed. I don't prefer to do this, but I am comfortable doing this when I must.

 

[clifffaith]

Cliff went for a motorized blind class in the San Francisco area when we still had our Chevy Venture. I loved that car because we could drive to Sedona or San Francisco without stopping for gas. I still think fondly of it every time we stop with the Ford Escape midway on our excursions. Anyway, since I wasn't with him he drove the Venture round trip to SF and back just to see if he could. He must have been running on fumes by the time he got back to our local gas station, but he did it.

 

[Passepartout]

We fuel at the neighborhood Kroger once a month because we get 10 cents discount per gallon for every $100 we spend at the store. Generally ~$.40 off. So we (OK I) full both vehicles and 2 gas cans- or 35 gallons. This month the final cost was $2.45. That keeps my truck in gas for the month, and the wife's plug-in uses no gas at all unless we take a trip. Unfortunately, it seldom makes it to our second home and back without a gallon of two of supplemental gas. That's 260 miles on 7 gallons. Still, a couple weeks of staying in town (using electricity) and the overall average comes in around 70 mpg.

Jim