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brakester

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8. I just came home from a trip 1/2 way across the US
Tue Dec 10, 2024, 06:03 PM
Dec 2024

with a Subaru Crosstrek, which is fossil fuel driven. (We're waiting until EVs get better.)
Two times I almost ran out of gas because I was concentrating on driving and didn't notice I was getting low!
Near Paducah TN, after running dangerously low, I saw an interstate sign that promised 2 gas stations at the exit. Well, I didn't see any, so I drove further down the local road in the pitch dark, turned around to look for the other one in the opposite direction and went miles and finally found, of all things, a Dollar Store, IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE which didn't have gas. So I told the nice clerks my dilemma. They said, "Yeah, about 20 years ago there were 2 gas stations at that exit!" They gave me directions and found a station but I was on fumes!

But I could have used a buzzer to alert me at 1/4 tank!

I'm going to complain to TNDOT about it.

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