Date:         Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:23:18 +0100
Reply-To:     Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
Subject:      Re: Cheap emergency gas can for INSIDE your van (Was: Mercedes
              gas can for spare tire)
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I personally LOVED the fuel thread!!!

I was (and continue to be) put to sleep by all the "tire talk" but the fuel
postings were so bizarre at times, it gave me a real good laugh. Right...
lets try to figure out  strange things to put in our beloved Vanagon gas
tanks... Hmmm.

Anyway, I was once driving a Jetta across Europe, and we were in Western
Spain, and Portugal... this was in 89-90... we drove in the red zone for
what seemed like hours, with no gas stations in sight.  Finally a small
village with a gas station!!!

We celebrated and as we pulled the one pump off the latch, and at the same
time, noticed that not only was the pump nozzle too big for our tank opening
(first thought being of course, "these guys sure have strange gas pumps
here")... but alas,  the station had only LEADED gas.

Fantastic... and we did not speak any Spanish or Portugese... we debated
seriously for about 15 minutes whether or not to put a few gallons in...
just to get us to a station with unleaded.

Our good judgement prevailed, and we decided (after trying to ask the nice
man at the station where the next unleaded gas can be found.. using only
hand signals as communication) to just drive on and risk running out of gas
over possibly trashing our Cat, and completely tainting our Jetta, which had
been so good to us for thousands of miles.

Then, about 500 meters, right over the next little hill, was a bright, new,
BP or some other modern brand of gas station, and we celebrated for real,
and filled the tank with unleaded.

Sorry, I got off on a tangent here.. what I REALLY wanted to comment on was
the guy who thought that he would be able to check out some labia at his
local Wal-Mart....  Maybe it is just because I am living in Europe now...
seemed extra silly.

That was some of the funniest "Fruedian-slip" language I've ever seen.

Thanks for the laugh!

RSF

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Robert S. Fish
Salzburg, Austria
1987 Wolfsburg Vanagon 2.1 Weekender
1987 Golf Cabriolet
1991 Golf

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben McCafferty" <ben@KBMC.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: Cheap emergency gas can for INSIDE your van (Was: Mercedes gas
can for spare tire)


> When I started the Mercedes thread, my intention was simply to find a way
to
> carry a couple extra gallons for those unexpected windy days in Wyoming
when
> you misjudge and your consumption goes through the roof and you're
sweating
> bullets wondering if you'll make it to Little America or not.  Nothing
more,
> nothing less.  I don't plan to make regular use of the extra, i.e.
extending
> range--I'd rather just pull into the station and fill up.  I go 200 miles,
> and stop whether I need it or not, but there have been days when 175
seemed
> impossible due to headwinds, etc., and I'm just trying to avoid a call to
> AAA.
> That's it.
> bmc  :)
> "Faith will move mountains, but you'd better bring a shovel...."
>
>
> > From: Jere Hawn <jbrschawn@EARTHLINK.NET>
> > Reply-To: Jere Hawn <jbrschawn@EARTHLINK.NET>
> > Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 22:46:10 -0800
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: Cheap emergency gas can for INSIDE your van (Was: Mercedes
gas
> > can for spare tire)
> >
> > Wasn't the original thought on this thread of coming up with ways to
reduce
> > the number of gas stop or increase the distance between them?  Running
out
> > of gas only increases the time between gas stops (or makes the gas stops
> > longer).  There can be a relation between time and distance but rate has
to
> > be above zero. (I'm sure Enron and Arthur Anderson could make the
relation
> > work with a rate of zero).  What I would like to know is how to extend
the
> > distance to about 500 miles, not 5,000 miles, (w/o tow truck, digi-wife,
or
> > other artificial mover) and keep my van looking like a van and not some
> > terrorist plot that includes red gas cans strapped, duct taped, or
fastened
> > to the exterior/interior.
> >
> > Jere
> > 90 GL
> > 88 GL
> >
>